Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 45, Issue 4 , Pages 444-447 , April 2005

The Quality of Medical Record Review Studies in the International Emergency Medicine Literature

  • Diana Badcock, MBBS
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  • Anne-Maree Kelly, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Anne-Maree Kelly, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, Western Hospital, Footscray 3011, Victoria, Australia; 03-8345-6315, fax 03-9318-4790
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  • Debra Kerr, BN, MBL
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  • Tom Reade, MBBS

Received 27 August 2004 ,Revised 11 November 2004 ,Accepted 12 November 2004.

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 Author contributions: AMK and DB conceived the study. AMK designed the data collection instrument. AMK and DK identified qualifying papers. DK, DB, and TR performed the data collection and data entry. AMK and DK performed the data analysis. AMK and DB wrote the draft manuscript. All authors contributed to data interpretation and the final manuscript. AMK takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.Funding and support: The authors report this study did not receive any outside funding or support.Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(04)01685-3

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.11.011

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 45, Issue 4 , Pages 444-447 , April 2005

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