Why the study?
Do quality improvement initiatives improve blood pressure and cholesterol control in patients with CHD across different ethnic groups?
Population
3,200 registered patients with a recorded diagnosis of coronary heart disease in 2007, from 29 general…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
10 years (1998-2007)
Authors
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Supports equitable CHD risk factor control via primary care initiatives; leaves open causality and generalizability to other systems or eras.
Do quality improvement initiatives improve blood pressure and cholesterol control in patients with CHD across different ethnic groups?
National quality improvement initiatives in primary care were associated with significant, equitable reductions in blood pressure and cholesterol among patients with CHD over a 10-year period.
Murray et al. (2010) studied this question.
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