Evidence-based medicine and primary care: Keeping up is hard to do

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 545-554

  Zipkin, Daniella A ^a   Greenblatt, Lawrence ^a   Kushinka, Jeffrey T ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

electronic health records; evidence based medicine; health insurance reform; primary care.

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MEDICAL FEE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; REIMBURSEMENT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LIBRARIES, DIGITAL; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84866389909     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 19317581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/msj.21337     Document Type: Article

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