Diagnosing Type 2 diabetes before patients complain of diabetic symptoms - Clinical opportunistic screening in a single general practice

Family Practice

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 376-381

  Evans, Philip ^a   Langley, Peter ^a   Gray, Denis Pereira ^a  

^a St Leonard's Research Practice   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF REPORT;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 55149094126     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: 14602229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmn052     Document Type: Article

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