Designing a multifaceted quality improvement intervention in primary care in a country where general practice is seeking recognition: The case of Cyprus

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Samoutis, George A ^a,b   Soteriades, Elpidoforos S ^b,c   Stoffers, Henri E ^d   Zachariadou, Theodora ^a   Philalithis, Anastasios ^a   Lionis, Christos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b Cyprus Institute of Biomedical Sciences CIBS   (Cyprus)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYPRUS; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CHRONIC DISEASE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PILOT STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CYPRUS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PILOT PROJECTS; PLANNING TECHNIQUES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 51449103918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-8-181     Document Type: Article

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