Improvement of diabetes care in a small but geographically widely spread population in Greenland. Effects of a national diabetes care programme

Diabetic Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1425-1432

  Pedersen, M L ^a   Jacobsen, J L ^a  

^a Center of Primary Health Care in Nuuk   (Greenland)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Inuit; Prevalence; Programme; Quality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; GREENLAND; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLESTEROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; GREENLAND; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054706175     PISSN: 07423071     EISSN: 14645491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2011.03337.x     Document Type: Article

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