Are Low-Income Elderly Patients at Risk for Poor Diabetes Care?

Diabetes Care

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1060-1065

  McCall, Daniel T ^a   Sauaia, Angela ^b   Hamman, Richard F ^c   Reusch, Jane E ^c   Barton, Phoebe ^c  

^a Colorado Foundation for Medical Care ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; LIPID;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOCRINOLOGY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; URBAN POPULATION;

AGED; CHILD; COLORADO; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; POVERTY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2342525904     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.27.5.1060     Document Type: Article

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