Physician performance assessment: Prevention of cardiovascular disease

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1029-1045

  Lipner, Rebecca S ^a   Weng, Weifeng ^a   Caverzagie, Kelly J ^b   Hess, Brian J ^a  

^a AMERICAN BOARD OF INTERNAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Performance assessment; Prevention; Standard of care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84888052856     PISSN: 13824996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10459-013-9447-7     Document Type: Article

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