As the population of older adults in the US increases, there is a growing need for performance measurement systems that take multiple comorbid conditions into account.
Practice guidelines aim to guide physician practice according to the best available evidence. Data were mixed regarding the impact of practice guidelines on physician prescribing.
Working with a team of primary care clinicians, medical informatics guideline experts, and experts on hypertension, researchers for this project will revise the existing automated decision support...
Research objectives:The primary goal of this project is to improve blood pressure control in patients with hypertension through a new model of care delivery, Group Medical Visits.
Using pre-existing data sets, this study will evaluate changes from 1994-2004 in the detection, diagnosis and treatment of hypertension and will identify contributors (clinical and non-clinical) to...
This project aims to develop a standardized computational framework for clinical practice guideline specification that will allow text guidelines to be easily translated into computable formats by...