Improvement in diabetes care of underinsured patients enrolled in Project Dulce: A community-based, culturally appropriate, nurse case management and peer education diabetes care model

Diabetes Care

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 110-115

  Philis Tsimikas, Athena ^a   Walker, Chris ^a   Rivard, Lisa ^a   Talavera, Gregory ^a   Reimann, Joachim O F ^a   Salmon, Michelle ^a   Araujo, Rachel ^a  

^a Whittier Institute for Diabetes   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; LIPID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALIFORNIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION;

EID: 1042291858     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.27.1.110     Document Type: Article

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