Conflicts and concordance between measures of medication prescribing quality

Medical Care

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 95-99

  Steinman, Michael A ^a,b   Rosenthal, Gary E ^c,d   Landefeld, C Seth ^a,b   Bertenthal, Daniel ^b   Sen, Saunak ^b   Kaboli, Peter J ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Drug therapy; Health care evaluation mechanisms; Quality of health care; Reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DRUG INTERACTION; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; POLYPHARMACY; REPRODUCIBILITY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; MALE; POLYPHARMACY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847123695     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlr.0000241111.11991.62     Document Type: Article

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