Quality of care for diabetes patients using National Health Insurance claims data in Japan

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1164-1169

  Tomio, Jun ^a   Toyokawa, Satoshi ^a   Tanihara, Shinichi ^b   Inoue, Kazuo ^a   Kobayashi, Yasuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

administrative data; claims; diabetes; National Health Insurance; quality of care

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES CONTROL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINARY EXCRETION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 78650629173     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2009.01287.x     Document Type: Article

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