A first step towards translating evidence into practice: Heart failure in a community practice-based research network

Informatics in Primary Care

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 139-145

  Onofrei, Mihai ^a   Hunt, Jacquelyn ^a,d   Siemienczuk, Joseph ^a   Touchette, Daniel R ^b   Middleton, Blackford ^c  

^a EARLE A CHILES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Providence Medical Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Data quality; Heart failure; Medical record system; Quality improvement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 8844264542     PISSN: 14760320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14236/jhi.v12i3.119     Document Type: Article

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