Association between quality of primary care and hospitalization for coronary heart disease in England: National cross-sectional study

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 135-141

  Bottle, Alex ^a   Gnani, Shamini ^a   Saxena, Sonia ^a   Aylin, Paul ^a   Mainous III, Arch G ^b   Majeed, Azeem ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary heart disease; Hospital admissions; Primary care; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; REVASCULARIZATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); CLINICAL AUDIT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 38849090098     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-007-0390-2     Document Type: Article

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