Population Health Management for Diabetes: Health Care System-Level Approaches for Improving Quality and Addressing Disparities

Current Diabetes Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Schmittdiel, Julie A ^a   Gopalan, Anjali ^a   Lin, Mark W ^b   Banerjee, Somalee ^b   Chau, Christopher V ^a,c   Adams, Alyce S ^a  

^a DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic illness care; Diabetes; Disparities; Population care; Population health; Quality improvement

Indexed keywords

CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 85016765867     PISSN: 15344827     EISSN: 15390829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11892-017-0858-3     Document Type: Review

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