Implications of conducting trend analyses of emergency department visits using publicly released masked design variables

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Zhu, Motao ^a,d   Chu, Haitao ^b   Rice, Thomas M ^c   Carter, Mary W ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Berkeley   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; INJURY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; TREND STUDY;

EID: 79957691675     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.12.025     Document Type: Article

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