The state of diabetes care provided to medicare beneficiaries living in rural America

Journal of Rural Health

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 351-358

  Weingarten Jr , Joseph P ^a   Brittman, Susan ^a   Hu, Wenrong ^a   Przybyszewski, Chris ^a   Hammond, Judith M ^a   Fitzgerald, Dawn ^a  

^a QSource   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; UNITED STATES; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 33749035714     PISSN: 0890765X     EISSN: 17480361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2006.00057.x     Document Type: Article

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