Hidden diabetes in the UK: Use of capture-recapture methods to estimate total prevalence of diabetes mellitus in an urban population

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 96, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 328-332

  Gill, Geoffrey V ^a   Ismail, Aziz A ^a   Beeching, Nicholas J ^a   Macfarlane, Sarah B J ^a   Bellis, Mark A ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA BASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; GENDER; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NEWBORN; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATIENT CODING; PREVALENCE; REGISTER; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STROKE; TECHNIQUE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0037488540     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.96.7.328     Document Type: Article

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