Primary care and health outcomes among older patients with diabetes

Health Services Research

Volumn 47, Issue 1 PART 1, 2012, Pages 46-67

  Prentice, Julia C ^a   Graeme Fincke, B ^b   Miller, Donald R ^b   Pizer, Steven D ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to care; ambulatory caresensitive conditions; diabetes; mortality; primary care wait times

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORTALITY; OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARALYSIS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84862933480     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2011.01307.x     Document Type: Article

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