Impact of a Pay-for-Performance Program on Care for Black Patients with Hypertension: Important Answers in the Era of the Affordable Care Act

Health Services Research

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1138-1155

  Petersen, Laura A ^a   Ramos, Kate Simpson ^b   Pietz, Kenneth ^a   Woodard, LeChauncy D ^a  

^a MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

physician incentive payment programs; Quality of care; race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; BLOOD PRESSURE; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PHYSICIAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT; PHYSICIANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84978485248     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12517     Document Type: Article

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