Street-level bureaucrats? Heart disease, health economics and policy in a primary care group

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 129-135

  McDonald, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Ethnography; Guidelines; Policy; Primary care

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; GROUP PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PAIN CLINIC; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; UNITED KINGDOM;

COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; CORONARY DISEASE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GREAT BRITAIN; GROUP PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; PAIN CLINICS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REGIONAL HEALTH PLANNING; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 0036560969     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2524.2002.00359.x     Document Type: Article

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