Diabetes and driving: Desired data, research methods and their pitfalls, current knowledge, and future research

Diabetes Care

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1942-1949

  Stork, Alexander D M ^a,b   Van Haeften, Timon W ^a   Veneman, Thiemo F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Hospital Group Twente   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ACCIDENT; AUTHORITY; AWARENESS; CLINICAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRIVER; DRIVING ABILITY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTER; REVIEW;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AGING; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMANS; RESEARCH;

EID: 33746594583     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 01495992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc05-2232     Document Type: Review

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