International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 77, Issue 3 , Pages 169-175 , March 2008

The nature and occurrence of registration errors in the emergency department

  • A. Forogh Hakimzada

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Decision Making and Cognition, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, 622 West 168th Street, Vanderbilt Clinic, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10032, United States
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  • Robert A. Green

      Affiliations

    • New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, New York, NY, United States
    • ,
  • Osman R. Sayan

      Affiliations

    • New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, New York, NY, United States
    • ,
  • Jiajie Zhang

      Affiliations

    • School of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, United States
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  • Vimla L. Patel

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Decision Making and Cognition, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, 622 West 168th Street, Vanderbilt Clinic, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10032, United States
    • Center for Decision Making and Cognition, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 480 727 7747; fax: +1 646 349 4081.

Received 11 October 2006 ,Revised 11 March 2007 ,Accepted 29 April 2007.

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International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 77, Issue 3 , Pages 169-175 , March 2008

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