Diabetic patients with prior specialist care have better glycaemic control than those with prior primary care

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 568-575

  Shah, Baiju R ^a,b,c   Hux, Janet E ^a,b,c   Laupacis, Andreas ^a,b,c   Zinman, Bernard ^b,d   Austin, Peter C ^a,c   Van Walraven, Carl ^a,e,f  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^f OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Glycaemic control; Primary care; Propensity score methods; Specialist care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC PATIENT; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREDICTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGED; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DATABASES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SELF CARE; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 29144485398     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2005.00582.x     Document Type: Article

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