The Impacts of “Growing Our Own”: A Pilot Project to Address Health Disparities by Training Health Professionals to Become Certified Diabetes Educators in Safety Net Practices

The Diabetes Educator

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 86-93

  Kahn, Linda S ^a   Tumiel Berhalter, Laurene ^a   D'aniello, Rona ^a   Danzo, Andy ^a   Fox, Chester H ^a   Taylor, John ^a   Holland, Shannon ^a   Glaser, Kathryn ^a   Patel, Vinod ^a   Glick, Myron ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b Jericho Road Family Practice ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT STUDY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT PROJECTS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84856983494     PISSN: 01457217     EISSN: 15546063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0145721711427455     Document Type: Article

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