Assessing quality of care in relation to control of cardiovascular risk

Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Rodondi N _ et al_. (2006) Therapy modifications in response to poorly controlled hypertension, dyslipidemia, and diabetes mellitus. _Ann

Intern Med_ 144: 475–484 Suboptimal control of diabetes and other cardiovascular risk factors is common, despite the publication of evidence-based guidelines for treating patients with these

risk factors. It is unclear, however, whether suboptimal control is caused by poor health-care provision, poor compliance with treatment, or the presence of particularly severe disease that

is unresponsive to optimal treatment. Measures that assess health-care quality, in relation to the control of cardiovascular risk factors, should ideally take these factors into account.

Rodondi _ et al_., therefore, suggest that assessing the response of health-care providers to the presence of poorly controlled risk factors might be more helpful than simply assessing

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