A survey of Australian clinical registries: Can quality of care be measured?

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 1 A, 2011, Pages 42-48

  Evans, S M ^a   Bohensky, M ^a   Cameron, P A ^a   McNeil, J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Database management system; Decision support system; Health services research; Registries

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CINAHL; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDLINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RELIABILITY; SELF REPORT;

AUSTRALIA; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; SELECTION BIAS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 79251523522     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2009.02068.x     Document Type: Article

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