Facility-level variations in patient-reported footcare knowledge sufficiency: Implications for diabetes performance measurement

Primary Care Diabetes

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 147-153

  Rajan, Mangala ^a   Pogach, Leonard ^a,b   Tseng, Chin Lin ^a,b   Reiber, Gayle ^c,d   Johnston, Mark ^a,b,e  

^a New Jersey Health Care System   (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e KESSLER FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Knowledge; Self foot care

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34548096726     PISSN: 17519918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcd.2007.05.002     Document Type: Article

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