Resolving fundamental quality issues in linked datasets for clinical care

Health Informatics Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 73-77

  Boyle, D I R ^a   Cunningham, S G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data quality; diabetes; EHR; electronic record linkage; HEALTH21; managed clinical networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990393446     PISSN: 14604582     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/146045820200800205     Document Type: Article

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