Monitoring diabetes in patients with and without rheumatoid arthritis: a Medicare study

Arthritis Research and Therapy

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Bartels, Christie M ^a   Saucier, Jessica M ^a   Thorpe, Carolyn T ^b,c   Kind, Amy J H ^a,d   Pandhi, Nancy ^a   Hansen, Karen E ^a   Smith, Maureen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d WILLIAM S MIDDLETON MEMORIAL VETERANS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; LIPID ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SKIN ULCER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BLOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865381716     PISSN: 14786354     EISSN: 14786362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/ar3915     Document Type: Article

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