Patients treated at multiple acute health care facilities: Quantifying information fragmentation

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 1989-1995

  Bourgeois, Fabienne C ^a,b   Olson, Karen L ^a,b   Mandl, Kenneth D ^a,b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 78650116830     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.439     Document Type: Article

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