Physician-patient racial concordance, continuity of care, and patterns of care for hypertension. Academic Article

abstract

• To assess the effects of physician-patient racial concordance and continuity of care on hypertension outcomes, we described patterns of care for hypertension; we used cross-tabulations and repeated measures (generalized estimating equations) analyses with panel survey data from elderly persons interviewed and examined in 1987 and 1990. Continuity of care was associated with recognition of hypertension, receipt of medication, and lower incidence of undetected hypertension. Physician race had little effect, but continuity is important for successful management of hypertension in older persons.

authors

• Howard, Daniel

published proceedings

• Am J Public Health

author list (cited authors)

• Konrad, T. R., Howard, D. L., Edwards, L. J., Ivanova, A., & Carey, T. S.

citation count

• 29

complete list of authors

• Konrad, Thomas R||Howard, Daniel L||Edwards, Lloyd J||Ivanova, Anastasia||Carey, Timothy S

publication date

• December 2005

publisher

• American Public Health Association  Publisher

published in

• American Journal of Public Health  Journal

keywords

• Aged
• Antihypertensive Agents
• Cohort Studies
• Continuity Of Patient Care
• Female
• Humans
• Hypertension
• Incidence
• Male
• North Carolina
• Outcome Assessment, Health Care
• Physician-Patient Relations
• Practice Patterns, Physicians'
• Racial Groups

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.2105/AJPH.2004.046177

start page

• 2186

end page

• 2190

volume

• 95

issue

• 12

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2004.046177