Printed educational messages aimed at family practitioners fail to increase retinal screening among their patients with diabetes: A pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial [ISRCTN72772651]

Implementation Science

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Zwarenstein, Merrick ^a,b   Shiller, Susan K ^b   Croxford, Ruth ^b   Grimshaw, Jeremy M ^e,f   Kelsall, Diane ^d   Paterson, J Michael ^b,h   Laupacis, Andreas ^b,i   Austin, Peter C ^b,h   Tu, Karen ^b,c   Yun, Lingsong ^b   Hux, Janet E ^b,c,g  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d CMAJ   (Canada)

^e OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^g Canadian Diabetes Association   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

ⁱ ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

EID: 84907399269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17485908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-5908-9-87     Document Type: Article

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