Family practices' achievement of diabetes quality of care targets and risk of screen-detected diabetic retinopathy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Gulliford, Martin C ^a   Dodhia, Hiten ^b   Sivaprasad, Sobha ^c   Ashworth, Mark ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Lambeth Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^c KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC GROUP; GENERAL PRACTICE; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PREVALENCE; RETINA MACULOPATHY; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SEX RATIO; UNITED KINGDOM; CLINICAL PRACTICE; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION;

DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; LONDON; MACULAR DEGENERATION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 77956403115     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010424     Document Type: Article

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