The intended and unintended consequences of quality improvement interventions for small practices in a community-based electronic health record implementation project

Medical Care

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 826-832

  Ryan, Andrew M ^a   McCullough, Colleen M ^b   Shih, Sarah C ^b   Wang, Jason J ^b   Ryan, Mandy S ^b   Casalino, Lawrence P ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

Author keywords

electronic health records; financial incentives; primary care; quality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84906085394     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000186     Document Type: Article

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