Improving services for people with diabetes: Lessons from setting up the DREAM trial

Practical Diabetes International

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 323-328

  Whitty, Paula ^a   Eccles, Martin P ^a   Hawthorne, Gillian ^b   Steen, Nick ^a   Vanoli, Alessandra ^a   Grimshaw, Jeremy M ^c   Wood, Linda ^d   Speed, Chris ^a   McDowell, David ^e  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Newcastle Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^c OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d DIABETES UK   (United Kingdom)

^e ProWellness UK Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Change management; Data quality; Diabetes; Guideliness; Primary care; Registers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGISTER; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 11044233809     PISSN: 13578170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pdi.711     Document Type: Article

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