How good is New South Wales admitted patient data collection in recording births?

Health Information Management Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 12-19

  Lam, Mary K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Birth Records; Clinical Coding; Data Linkage; Data Quality; Hospital Information Systems; Informatics; International Classification of Diseases; Medical Records

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRTH; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RECORD; REGISTER; STANDARD; VITAL STATISTICS;

DATA COLLECTION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; NEW SOUTH WALES; PARTURITION; REGISTRIES; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 84862329886     PISSN: 18333583     EISSN: 18333575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/183335831104000302     Document Type: Article

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