A countywide primary care annual audit fails to demonstrate an improvement in diabetes care between 1996 and 2001

Practical Diabetes International

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 129-134

  Masding, M G ^a   Adams, A ^b   Dawson, A ^a   Gatling, W ^a  

^a POOLE HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b Lynx West Trading Estate   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audit; Complication screening; Diabetes; Primary care

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; EYE DISEASE; FOOT DISEASE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL AUDIT; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SCREENING;

EID: 0037870081     PISSN: 13578170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pdi.472     Document Type: Article

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