Assessing Quality of Care via HEDIS 3.0: Is There a Better Way?

Archives of Family Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 410-413

  Mainous III, Arch G ^a   Talbert, Jeffery ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; NEWBORN; REVIEW; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOFTWARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032159192     PISSN: 10633987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archfami.7.5.410     Document Type: Article

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