Whether to report diabetes as the underlying cause-of-death? A survey of internists of different sub-specialties

BMC Endocrine Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lu, Tsung Hsueh ^a   Kwok, Ching Fai ^b,c   Ho, Low Tone ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CARDIOLOGIST; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC PATIENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEPHROLOGIST; NONKETOTIC DIABETIC COMA; PHYSICIAN; PNEUMONIA; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEPSIS; TAIWAN;

EID: 77954813270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6823-10-13     Document Type: Article

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