What happens to Palestine refugees with diabetes mellitus in a primary healthcare centre in Jordan who fail to attend a quarterly clinic appointment?

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 308-312

  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; Failure to attend the clinic; Jordan; Lost to follow up; Palestine refugees

Indexed keywords

COHORT REPORTS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FAILURE TO ATTEND THE CLINIC; JORDAN; LOST TO FOLLOW-UP; PALESTINE REFUGEES;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; ARABS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JORDAN; LOST TO FOLLOW-UP; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REFUGEES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893808433     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12256     Document Type: Article

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