TY - JOUR
T1 - Quality of cardiovascular disease care in Ontario, Canada: missed opportunities for prevention - a cross sectional study
AU - Liddy, Clare
AU - Singh, Jatinderpreet
AU - Hogg, William
AU - Dahrouge, Simone
AU - Deri-Armstrong, Catherine
AU - Russell, Grant Mervyn
AU - Taljaard, Monica
AU - Akbari, Ayub
AU - Wells, George
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - We conducted a secondary analysis of cross-sectional baseline data collected from 84 primary care practices participating in a large quality improvement initiative in Eastern Ontario from 2008 to 2010. We collected medical chart data from 4,931 patients who either had, or were at high risk of developing CVD to study adherence rates to recommended guidelines for CVD care and to examine the proportion of patients at target for clinical markers such as blood pressure, lipid levels and hemoglobin A1c.
AB - We conducted a secondary analysis of cross-sectional baseline data collected from 84 primary care practices participating in a large quality improvement initiative in Eastern Ontario from 2008 to 2010. We collected medical chart data from 4,931 patients who either had, or were at high risk of developing CVD to study adherence rates to recommended guidelines for CVD care and to examine the proportion of patients at target for clinical markers such as blood pressure, lipid levels and hemoglobin A1c.
UR - http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2261-12-74.pdf
U2 - 10.1186/1471-2261-12-74
DO - 10.1186/1471-2261-12-74
M3 - Article
SN - 1471-2261
VL - 12
SP - 1
EP - 9
JO - BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
JF - BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
IS - Art. ID: 74
ER -
