Common reasons for hospitalization in urban diabetes patients

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 391-397

  Cook, Curtiss B ^a   Tsui, Circe ^b   Ziemer, David C ^b   Naylor, Dorothy B ^c   Miller, William J ^d   Hentz, Joseph G ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Georgia Regional Hospital   (United States)

^d WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Diabetes mellitus; Hospitalization

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CELLULITIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 34250733418     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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