Variation in Office-Based Quality: A Claims-Based Profile of Care Provided to Medicare Patients With Diabetes

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 273, Issue 19, 1995, Pages 1503-1508

  Weiner, Jonathan P ^a   Parente, Stephen T ^b   Garnick, Deborah W ^c   Fowles, Jinnet ^d   Lawthers, Ann G ^e   Palmer, R Heather ^e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Project HOPE   (United States)

^c BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PARK NICOLLET INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0029013954     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1995.03520430039036     Document Type: Article

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