Do current standards of primary care of diabetes meet with guideline recommendations in Trinidad, West Indies?

Primary Care Diabetes

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 91-96

  Pinto Pereira, Lexley M ^a   Hinds, Avery ^b   Ali, Issa ^a   Gooding, Ravita ^a   Ragbir, Michelle ^a   Samaroo, Kavita ^b   Nayak, Shivananda B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^b The North West Regional Health Authority ^*  (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Guidelines; Primary health care; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CAREGIVER; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES EDUCATION; DIET THERAPY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; VISUAL ACUITY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CAREGIVERS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC DIET; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

EID: 67650215184     PISSN: 17519918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcd.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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