Socioeconomic deprivation, coronary heart disease prevalence and quality of care: A practice-level analysis in Rotherham using data from the new UK general practitioner Quality and Outcomes Framework

Journal of Public Health

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 39-42

  Strong, Mark ^a   Maheswaran, Ravi ^b   Radford, John ^a  

^a Rotherham Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coronary disease; Primary health care; Quality of health care; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POVERTY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

CONTRACT SERVICES; CORONARY DISEASE; ENGLAND; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIAN INCENTIVE PLANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POVERTY AREAS; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 33644986529     PISSN: 17413842     EISSN: 17413850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdi065     Document Type: Article

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