Improving Hypertension Quality Measurement Using Electronic Health Records
Improving Hypertension Quality Measurement Using Electronic Health Records
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DOI:
10.1097/mlr.0b013e31818b070c
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发表时间:
2009-04-01
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3
通讯作者:
Baker, David W.
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作者:
Persell, Stephen D.;Kho, Abel N.;Baker, David W.
Background: Simple hypertension outcome measures may not indicate which patients receive poor care. This could be problematic as incentives increase.Objective: Compare measured quality using simple outcome measures to more sophisticated measures utilizing data available within an electronic health record.Design: Cross-sectional study, Subjects: A total of 5905 hypertensive adults with 3 or more clinic visits between July 1. 2005 and December 3 1, 2006 at an internal medicine clinic.Measures: We measured simple control as the proportion of diagnosed hypertension patients with their last blood pressure below goal (