Interdisciplinary diabetes care teams operating on the interface between primary and specialty care are associated with improved outcomes of care: Findings from the Leuven Diabetes Project

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Borgermans, Liesbeth ^a   Goderis, Geert ^a   Van Den Broeke, Carine ^a   Verbeke, Geert ^a   Carbonez, An ^a   Ivanova, Anna ^a   Mathieu, Chantal ^b   Aertgeerts, Bert ^a   Heyrman, Jan ^a   Grol, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; INSULIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PILOT STUDY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPECIALIZATION;

BELGIUM; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PILOT PROJECTS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SPECIALIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70350382870     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-9-179     Document Type: Article

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