Carolyn A Peterson

Biographic Data

ID5539694
NAMECarolyn A Peterson
GIVEN NAMESCarolyn A
FAMILY NAMEPeterson
SIGNATUREPETERSON C A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, San Francisco
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX0

  • Reasons for Not Prescribing Guideline-recommended Medications to Adults With Heart Failure

    Michael A Steinman, Liezel Dimaano et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2013References: 6

    BACKGROUND: Little is known about how often contextual factors such as patient preferences and competing priorities impact prescribing of guideline-recommended medications, or about the extent to which these factors are documented in medical records and available to performance measurement systems. METHODS: Mixed-methods study of 295 veterans aged 50 years and older in 4 VA health care systems who had systolic heart failure and were not prescribe…

  • A Clinically Guided Approach for Improving Performance Measurement for Hypertension

    Michael A Steinman, Sei J Lee et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2012References: 20

    BACKGROUND: Performance measures often fail to account for legitimate reasons why patients do not achieve recommended treatment targets. METHODS: We tested a novel performance measurement system for blood pressure (BP) control that was designed to mimic clinical reasoning. This clinically guided approach focuses on (1) exempting patients for whom tight BP control may not be appropriate or feasible and (2) assessing BP over time. Trained abstracto…