Diabetes care among older urban American Indians and Alaska natives

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 574-579

  Rhoades, Dorothy A ^a,d   Roubideaux, Yvette ^a,c   Buchwald, Dedra ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Indians North American; Quality of care; Type 2 diabetes mellitus; Urban

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; INFLUENZA VACCINE; INSULIN; LIPID; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DIABETIC FOOT; DIET THERAPY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT REFERRAL; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SCREENING TEST; SKIN EXAMINATION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; URINALYSIS;

AGED; ALASKA; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INUITS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; WASHINGTON;

EID: 7444254950     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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