Quality of cardiovascular disease preventive care and physician/practice characteristics.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Quality of cardiovascular disease (CVD) preventive care is suboptimal. Recent data correlated increasing years in practice for physicians with lower-quality health care.

Objective

The purpose of this study was to assess physician awareness/adherence to national blood pressure, cholesterol, and CVD prevention guidelines for women according to physician/practice characteristics.

Design

Standardized online survey and experimental case studies were administered to 500 randomly selected U.S. physicians. Multivariable regression models tested physician age, gender, specialty, and practice type as independent predictors of guideline awareness/adherence.

Results

Compared with older physicians (50+ years), younger physicians (<50 years) reported a lower level

SUBMITTER: Christian AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1828095 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature