Identifying diabetes mellitus or heart disease among health maintenance organization members: Sensitivity, specificity, predictive value, and cost of survey and database methods

American Journal of Managed Care

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 335-342

  O'Connor, Patrick J ^a   Rush, William A ^a   Pronk, Nicolaas P ^a   Cherney, Linda M ^a  

^a HEALTHPARTNERS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEPHONE;

ADULT; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031875954     PISSN: 10880224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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