Meaningful measurement: developing a measurement system to improve blood pressure control in patients with chronic kidney disease.

CONCLUSIONS: Building a method for clinically meaningful continuous performance measurement of BP control is possible, but will require data from multiple sources. Electronic measurement systems need to grow to be able to capture and process performance data from patients as well as in real-time from physicians.
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Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - January 23, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Greenberg JO, Vakharia N, Szent-Gyorgyi LE, Desai SP, Turchin A, Forman J, Bonventre JV, Kachalia A Tags: J Am Med Inform Assoc Source Type: research