The quality of routinely collected data: Using the "principal diagnosis" in emergency department databases as an example

Electronic Journal of Health Informatics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Liaw, Siaw Teng ^a,b   Chen, Huei Yang ^a   Maneze, Della ^a   Taggart, Jane ^a   Dennis, Sarah ^a   Vagholkar, Sanjyot ^a,b   Bunker, Jeremy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b FAIRFIELD GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data; Data extraction; Discharge summary; EHR; EMR; Firstnet; Information; Quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860567822     PISSN: 14464381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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