Using electronic health records to measure physician performance for acute conditions in primary care empirical evaluation of the community-acquired pneumonia clinical quality measure set

Medical Care

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 208-216

  Linder, Jeffrey A ^a   Kaleba, Erin O ^c   Kmetik, Karen S ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c Alliance of Chicago Community Health Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Computerized; Healthcare; Medical record systems; Pneumonia; Primary health care; Quality indicators

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; INFLUENZA VACCINE; MACROLIDE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMPIRICISM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFORMATION; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENTAL HEALTH; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VITAL SIGN; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; BOSTON; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 59049084964     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e318189375f     Document Type: Article

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