A link to improve stroke patient care: A successful linkage between a statewide emergency medical services data system and a stroke registry

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1398-1404

  Mears, Greg D ^a   Rosamond, Wayne D ^b   Lohmeier, Chad ^a   Murphy, Carol ^b   O'Brien, Emily ^b   Asimos, Andrew W ^c   Brice, Jane H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; STANDARDIZATION; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NORTH CAROLINA; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REGISTRIES; STROKE;

EID: 78650020054     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00925.x     Document Type: Article

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