Treatment outcomes in a cohort of Palestine refugees with diabetes mellitus followed through use of E-Health over 3 years in Jordan

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 219-223

  Khader, Ali ^a   Ballout, Ghada ^a   Shahin, Yousef ^a   Hababeh, Majed ^a   Farajallah, Loai ^a   Zeidan, Wafaa ^a   Abu Zayed, Ishtaiwi ^b   Kochi, Arata ^c   Harries, Anthony D ^d,e   Zachariah, Rony ^f   Kapur, Anil ^g   Shaikh, Irshad ^a   Seita, Akihiro ^a  

^a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East   (Jordan)

^b UNRWA   (Jordan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE   (France)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^g World Diabetes Foundation   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cohort reports; Diabetes mellitus; Jordan; Palestine refugees; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; DIABETES; HEALTH RISK; HYPERTENSION; OBESITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REFUGEE; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; JORDAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PALESTINE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REFUGEE; TELEHEALTH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

JORDAN;

COHORT REPORTS; DIABETES MELLITUS; JORDAN; PALESTINE REFUGEES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; ARABS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLESTEROL; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; JORDAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REFUGEES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892670411     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12241     Document Type: Article

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