Does higher quality primary health care reduce stroke admissions? A national cross-sectional study

British Journal of General Practice

Volumn 61, Issue 593, 2011, Pages

  Soljak, Michael ^a   Calderon Larrañaga, Amaia ^b   Sharma, Pankaj ^a   Cecil, Elizabeth ^a   Bell, Derek ^a   Abi Aad, Gerrard ^c   Majeed, Azeem ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^c OECD   (France)

Author keywords

Health care quality, access, and evaluation; Hospitals, utilization; Primary health care, standards; Stroke, prevention and control

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIENCE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RISK FACTOR; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SMOKING CESSATION; STANDARDIZED INCIDENCE RATIO; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGLAND; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREVALENCE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STROKE;

EID: 83355163487     PISSN: 09601643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3399/bjgp11X613142     Document Type: Article

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