Family doctors' knowledge and self-reported care of type 2 diabetes patients in comparison to the clinical practice guideline: Cross-sectional study

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Rätsep, Anneli ^a   Kalda, Ruth ^a   Oja, Ivika ^b   Lember, Margus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b General Practice of Laeva ^*  (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; GLUCOSE; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEMOGRAPHY; ESTONIA; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SELF REPORT; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANALYSIS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL AUDIT; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; ESTONIA; FAMILY PRACTICE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE LOCATION; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 33746312355     PISSN: 14712296     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-7-36     Document Type: Article

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