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Managing chronic disease at community health centers

Email|Link|Comments (0) Posted by Elizabeth Cooney February 28, 2007 05:00 PM

Researchers from Harvard Medical School assessed the effectiveness of the Health Disparities Collaboratives, a group set up to help community health centers improve the quality of their care. The collaboratives improved care for patients with diabetes and asthma but not for those with hypertension, Dr. Bruce E. Landon and colleagues report in tomorrow's New England Journal of Medicine.

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Elizabeth Cooney covers health for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. She previously reported on business and was an editor at the paper. Earlier in her career, she edited medical books and journals at Little, Brown, and worked for Boston magazine.