Can district-wide audits improve primary care epilepsy management? An audit of seizure frequency recording

British Journal of General Practice

Volumn 50, Issue 452, 2000, Pages 229-230

  Hodgson, Jim ^b   Beardmore, Gill ^a   Hall, William W ^c  

^a Rushcliffe Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b Kilmeny Surgery   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Audit; Epilepsy; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPILEPSY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL AUDIT; MONITORING; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEIZURE;

DISEASE MANAGEMENT; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORDS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0034008504     PISSN: 09601643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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