Multiple imputation for completion of a national clinical audit dataset

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 2736-2753

  Cattle, Brian A ^a   Baxter, Paul D ^a   Greenwood, Darren C ^a   Gale, Christopher P ^b   West, Robert M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b YORK TEACHING HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndromes; Clinical audit; Multiple imputation; Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DATA EXTRACTION; DISEASE REGISTRY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION STORAGE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

CLINICAL AUDIT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

EID: 80052827976     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4314     Document Type: Article

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