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Clinically relevant quality measures for risk factor control in primary care: a retrospective cohort study

Published inBMC health services research, vol. 14, 306
Publication date2014
Abstract

Assessment of the proportion of patients with well controlled cardiovascular risk factors underestimates the proportion of patients receiving high quality of care. Evaluating whether physicians respond appropriately to poor risk factor control gives a different picture of quality of care. We assessed physician response to control cardiovascular risk factors, as well as markers of potential overtreatment in Switzerland, a country with universal healthcare coverage but without systematic quality monitoring, annual report cards on quality of care or financial incentives to improve quality.

Keywords
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Cardiovascular Diseases/epidemiology/prevention & control
  • Comorbidity
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Primary Health Care/standards
  • Quality Indicators, Health Care
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Risk Factors
  • Switzerland/epidemiology
Citation (ISO format)
WEILER, Stefan et al. Clinically relevant quality measures for risk factor control in primary care: a retrospective cohort study. In: BMC health services research, 2014, vol. 14, p. 306. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-306
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