Will a web-based cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment programme increase the assessment of CVD risk factors for Māori?

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 119, Issue 1238, 2006, Pages

  Whittaker, Robyn ^a   Bramley, Dale ^b   Wells, Sue ^c   Stewart, Alistair ^c   Selak, Vanessa ^c   Furness, Sue ^c   Rafter, Natasha ^a   Roseman, Paul ^d   Jackson, Rod ^c  

^a Health Gain Team   (New Zealand)

^b WAITEMATA DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d ProCare Health Ltd ^*  (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAORI; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; ABORIGINE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOCUMENTATION; ETHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; GENERAL PRACTICE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; ONLINE SYSTEM; SEX RATIO; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOCUMENTATION; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; ONLINE SYSTEMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING;

EID: 33746625093     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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