German diabetes management programs improve quality of care and curb costs

Health Affairs

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2197-2205

  Stock, Stephanie ^a   Drabik, Anna ^a   Büscher, Guido ^a   Graf, Christian ^b   Ullrich, Walter ^b   Gerber, Andreas ^c   Lauterbach, Karl W ^d   Lüngen, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Barmer GEK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d German Parliament from Cologne ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COST CONTROL; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COST CONTROL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 79953770932     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2009.0799     Document Type: Article

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