Improving ambulatory diabetes care in high-risk racial minorities: Use of culture-specific education and close follow-up

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 171-177

  Joshi, Renu ^a   Joshi, Nirmal ^a   Helmuth, Amy ^a  

^a Pinnacle Health System   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; LIPID;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CHRONIC DISEASE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIABETES CONTROL; DIABETES EDUCATION; DIABETES EDUCATOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LIPID ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROALBUMINURIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; TELEPHONE; ALBUMINURIA; BLOOD; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALBUMINURIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953947547     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP09199.OR     Document Type: Article

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