Accountable Care Organizations: Ensuring Focus on Cardiovascular Health

Circulation

Volumn 132, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 603-610

  Patel, Kavita K ^a   Cigarroa, Joaquin E ^b   Nadel, Jeffrey ^a   Cohen, Deborah J ^b   Stecker, Eric C ^b  

^a BROOKINGS INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

delivery of health care; health care costs; health care economics and organizations; health policy; health services research

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATION; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGIST; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MANAGED CARE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PATIENT CARE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COST CONTROL; ECONOMICS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REIMBURSEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATIONS; CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COST CONTROL; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REIMBURSEMENT MECHANISMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84939535193     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.010269     Document Type: Article

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