Quality of care in elder emergency department patients with pneumonia : a retrospective cohort study

ion was performed by trained data abstractors (research associates and medical students) using a standardized abstraction form. An instruction book was available and all abstractors attended a training session on the content and coding of each data element. Data abstractors attended monthly meetings to resolve any questions and review coding rules. Abstractors were not aware at the time of abstraction of the specific hypotheses evaluated inors were not aware at the time of abstraction of the specific hypotheses evaluated in

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