Community Vital Signs: Taking the Pulse of the Community While Caring for Patients

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 419-422

  Hughes, Lauren S ^a   Phillips, Robert L ^b   DeVoe, Jennifer E ^c,d   Bazemore, Andrew W ^e  

^a PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b AMERICAN BOARD OF FAMILY MEDICINE   (United States)

^c OCHIN Inc   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ROBERT GRAHAM CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Population Characteristics; Public Health; Residence Characteristics; Social Determinants of Health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY CARE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HUMAN; NEIGHBORHOOD; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PULSE RATE; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VITAL SIGN; CULTURAL DEPRIVATION; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH INSURANCE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CULTURAL DEPRIVATION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH INSURANCE PORTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84969262505     PISSN: 15572625     EISSN: 15587118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2016.03.150172     Document Type: Article

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