Myocardial infarction and the validation of physician billing and hospitalization data using electronic medical records

Chronic Diseases in Canada

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 141-146

  Tu, K ^a,b,c   Mitiku, T ^a   Guo, H ^a   Lee, D S ^a,d   Tu, J V ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^e SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electronic health records; Medical care costs; Myocardial infarction; Ontario; Patient discharge; Validation studies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL FEE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEES, MEDICAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ONTARIO; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79251515756     PISSN: 02288699     EISSN: 14818523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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