Family physician ethnicity influences quality of diabetes care for Chinese but not South Asian patients

Primary Care Diabetes

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 432-438

  Shah, Baiju R ^a,b,c   Hwee, Jeremiah ^a   Anand, Sonia S ^d   Austin, Peter C ^a,b   Manuel, Douglas G ^a,e   Hux, Janet E ^a,f  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^f Canadian Diabetes Association   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chinese; Ethnicity; Family physicians; Quality of care; South Asian

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROALBUMINURIA; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTH ASIAN; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PSYCHOLOGY; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ADULT; AGED; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84949627419     PISSN: 17519918     EISSN: 18780210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcd.2015.02.002     Document Type: Article

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