Performance management in clinical diabetes: Are the Diabetes UK '15 health care essentials' a good enough measure of the standard of diabetes care?

Practical Diabetes

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 275-278

  Grant, Paul ^a   Haq, Masud ^a   Barnes, Dennis ^a  

^a Tunbridge Wells TN2 4QJ   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diabetes service; Diabetes UK essentials; Health care standards; Performance management

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; DIABETES MELLITUS; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RETINA; SMOKING CESSATION; UNITED KINGDOM; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84869143952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20472900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pdi.1706     Document Type: Article

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