Federated queries of clinical data repositories: The sum of the parts does not equal the whole

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 20, Issue E1, 2013, Pages

  Weber, Griffin M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DATA REPOSITORY; HOSPITAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER NETWORK; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FACTUAL DATABASE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORD; SEARCH ENGINE; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; HOSPITAL SHARED SERVICES; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; SEARCH ENGINE;

BOSTON; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84881360700     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001299     Document Type: Article

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