Is physician engagement with web-based CME associated with patients' baseline hemoglobin A1c levels? the rural diabetes online care study

Academic Medicine

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1511-1517

  Crenshaw, Katie ^a   Curry, William ^b   Salanitro, Amanda H ^c   Safford, Monika M ^b   Houston, Thomas K ^d,e   Allison, Jeroan J ^e   Estrada, Carlos A ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f Veterans Affairs National Quality Scholars Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEALTH; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; INTERNET; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RURAL HEALTH; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77956302870     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181eac036     Document Type: Article

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