Supporting general practice to make timely decisions for better health care: a population health approach.
Primary Health Networks (PHNs) are tasked to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of general practice. Gold Coast Primary Health Network (GCPHN) has been collecting de-identified aggregated clinical data from general practices and reporting back on areas for improvement on data coding and some c...
| Publicado en: | Australian Journal of Primary Health Vol. 24; no. 5; pp. 368 - 372 |
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| Formato: | review Journal Article |
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CSIRO Publishing
2018
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