Tracking diabetes: New York City's A1C registry

Milbank Quarterly

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 547-570

  Chamany, Shadi ^a,b   Silver, Lynn D ^a   Bassett, Mary T ^a   Driver, Cynthia R ^a   Berger, Diana K ^a   Neuhaus, Charlotte E ^a   Kumar, Namrata ^a   Frieden, Thomas R ^a  

^a NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Control Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Disease registry; Privacy; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PRIVACY; PROFESSIONAL SECRECY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

CONFIDENTIALITY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; NEW YORK CITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; REGISTRIES;

EID: 69949185194     PISSN: 0887378X     EISSN: 14680009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0009.2009.00568.x     Document Type: Review

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