Frequent outpatient contact and decreasing medication affordability in patients with diabetes from 1997 to 2004

Diabetes Care

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1386-1388

  Grant, Richard W ^a,c   McCarthy, Ellen P ^b   Singer, Daniel E ^a   Meigs, James B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT;

BODY MASS INDEX; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 33746396018     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 01495992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc06-0196     Document Type: Article

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