The 'global outcomes score': A quality measure, based on health outcomes, that compares current care to a target level of care

Health Affairs

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2441-2450

  Eddy, David M ^a   Adler, Joshua ^b   Morris, Macdonald ^c  

^a Archimedes   (United States)

^b IndiGO ^*  (United States)

^c Archimedes   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; GLOBAL OUTCOME SCORE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; SCORING SYSTEM;

BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84871906584     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2011.1274     Document Type: Article

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