Measuring Health Equity for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions in a Large Integrated Health Care System: The Development of an Index

Health Equity

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 92-98

  Pressman, Alice ^a   Lockhart, Stephen ^a   Petersen, John ^a   Robinson, Sarah ^a   Moreno, Maria ^a   Azar, Kristen M J ^a  

^a SUTTER HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

ambulatory care sensitive conditions; health disparities; health equity; quality improvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 85079179334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 24731242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/heq.2018.0092     Document Type: Article

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