Diabetes and hypertension guidelines and the primary health care practitioner in Barbados: Knowledge, attitudes, practices and barriers-a focus group study

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Adams, O Peter ^a   Carter, Anne O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BARBADOS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADULT; BARBADOS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR;

EID: 78649572173     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-11-96     Document Type: Article

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