Are screening guidelines for abdominal aortic aneurysms being implemented within a large VA primary health care system?

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 132-135

  Federman, Daniel G ^a,b   Carbone, Vera G ^a   Kravetz, Jeffrey D ^a,b   Kancir, Sue ^a   Kirsner, Robert S ^c   Bravata, Dawn M ^d  

^a VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Abdominal screening; Primary care; Veterans Affairs health care

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECHOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING TEST; SMOKING; VETERAN; GOVERNMENT; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CONNECTICUT; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 60549111454     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: 19419260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2009.01.1962     Document Type: Article

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