Mobile clinic in massachusetts associated with cost savings from lowering blood pressure and emergency department use

Health Affairs

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 36-44

  Song, Zirui ^a   Hill, Caterina ^a   Bennet, Jennifer ^b   Vavasis, Anthony ^c   Oriol, Nancy E ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Harvard Medical School ^*

^c Callen Lorde Community Health Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COST CONTROL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL WELFARE; MOBILE HEALTH CLINIC; NUTRITIONAL COUNSELING; OBESITY; PATIENT COUNSELING; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNITED STATES;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BOSTON; COST SAVINGS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE HEALTH UNITS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84872056564     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2011.1392     Document Type: Article

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