Consultation computer use to improve management of chronic disease in general practice: A before and after study

Informatics in Primary Care

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 61-68

  Mitchell, Elizabeth ^a   McConnachie, Alex ^b   Sullivan, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chronic disease; Computer; Consultation; General practice

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CASE STUDY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSULTATION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DATA ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FOOT; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PULSE WAVE; RECORDING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URINALYSIS; COMPUTER; METHODOLOGY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATIENT REFERRAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTERS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0142200891     PISSN: 14760320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14236/jhi.v11i2.557     Document Type: Article

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