Ethnicity, language, specialty care, and quality of diabetes care

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 65-71

  Nguyen, Tung T ^a   Daniels, Nicholas A ^a   Gildengorin, Ginny L ^a   Pérez Stable, Eliseo J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Ethnicity; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CHOLESTEROL; CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; EYE CARE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MICROALBUMINURIA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED; DIABETES MELLITUS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAN FRANCISCO;

EID: 33846900944     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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