Potential use of routine databases in health technology assessment

Health Technology Assessment

Volumn 9, Issue 20, 2005, Pages

  Raftery, J ^a   Roderick, P ^b   Stevens, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CONFIDENTIALITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DISEASE REGISTRY; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; REVIEW; CLASSIFICATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS;

BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT;

EID: 85044705798     PISSN: 13665278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3310/hta9200     Document Type: Review

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