Using an electronic medical record to identify opportunities to improve compliance with cholesterol guidelines
- 1 August 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of General Internal Medicine
- Vol. 16 (8) , 531-537
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1525-1497.2001.016008531.x
Abstract
OBJECTIVE:To use an electronic medical record to measure rates of compliance with the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) cholesterol guidelines for secondary prevention, to characterize...Keywords
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