Quality improvement for prevention of cardiovascular disease and stroke in an academic family medicine center: Do racial differences in outcome exist?

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 132-137

  Jenkins, Ruth G ^a   Ornstein, Steven M ^a   Nietert, Paul J ^b   Klockars, Sara J ^c   Thiedke, Carolyn ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular diseases; Computerized medical records systems; Health care quality assurance; Health care quality indicators; Racial differences

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIPID ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROPHYLAXIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; STROKE; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOUTH CAROLINA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33744973309     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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