Linking data to improve health outcomes: Routinely collected data, when linked, are a rich source of sound evidence for making health care decisions

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 200, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 368-369

  Olver, Ian N ^a  

^a CANCER COUNCIL AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER REGISTRY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DISEASE REGISTRY; EDITORIAL; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CODING; PRIVACY; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; VACCINATION; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MORTALITY; NOTE; STOMACH TUMOR;

ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84903758884     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja14.00374     Document Type: Editorial

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