Same eyes, different doctors: Differences in primary care physician referrals for diabetic retinopathy screening

Diabetes Care

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1073-1077

  Lazaridis, Emmanuel N ^a,b   Qiu, Chunfu ^a   Kraft, Stephanie K ^a   Marrero, David G ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Diabet Research and Training Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT REFERRAL;

EID: 1842369076     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.20.7.1073     Document Type: Article

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