Adverse Event Surveillance Pilot From AHRQ Examines Hypertension, Diabetes
Executive Summary
A study recently initiated by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will develop a distributed network prototype by aggregating medical records and claims data for diabetes and hypertension therapy
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