Adding value to clinical data by linkage to a public death registry

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 84, Issue , 2001, Pages 1384-1388

  Pates, Robert D ^a   Scully, Kenneth W ^a   Einbinder, Jonathan S ^a   Merkel, Richard L ^a   Stukenborg, George J ^a   Spraggins, Thomas A ^a   Reynolds, Calvin ^b   Hyman, Ronald ^b   Dembling, Bruce P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Death Certificates; Hospital Information Systems; Medical Record Linkage

Indexed keywords

CLOCK AND DATA RECOVERY CIRCUITS (CDR CIRCUITS); HOSPITALS;

DEATH CERTIFICATES; FALSE POSITIVE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNAL CONTROLS; MEDICAL RECORD; SCORING ALGORITHMS; SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS; UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA;

MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; EVALUATION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REGISTER; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

DEATH CERTIFICATES; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; REGISTRIES; SUICIDE; VIRGINIA;

EID: 84888046709     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-928-8-1384     Document Type: Conference Paper

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