The Veterans Affairs's Corporate Data Warehouse: Uses and Implications for Nursing Research and Practice

Nursing Administration Quarterly

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 311-318

  Price, Lauren E ^a   Shea, Kimberly ^a   Gephart, Sheila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Data; Corporate Data Warehouse; data mining; Department of Veterans Affairs; nursing

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NURSING CARE; NURSING RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

DATA MINING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NURSING CARE; NURSING RESEARCH; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84942255441     PISSN: 03639568     EISSN: 15505103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NAQ.0000000000000118     Document Type: Article

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