Managing chronic disease in ontario primary care: The impact of organizational factors

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 309-318

  Russell, Grant M ^a,b   Dahrouge, Simone ^a   Hogg, William ^a,c   Geneau, Robert ^a,b   Muldoon, Laura ^a,b   Tuna, Meltem ^a  

^a BRUYÈRE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronic disease; Primary health care; Quality of health care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONSULTATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SERVICE; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; ONTARIO; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 67749133934     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: 15441717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.982     Document Type: Article

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