Building a diabetes registry from the veterans health administration's computerized patient record system

Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 7-14

  Kern, Elizabeth F O ^a   Beischel, Scott ^b   Stalnaker, Randal ^c   Aron, David C ^c   Kirsh, Susan R ^c   Watts, Sharon A ^d  

^a Division of Nephrology   (United States)

^b Commerce Planet Inc ^*  (United States)

^c LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Division of Endocrinology   (United States)

Author keywords

Computerized medical records systems; Diabetes mellitus; Quality of health care

Indexed keywords

EID: 64349099008     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19322968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/193229680800200103     Document Type: Conference Paper

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