Diabetes mellitus requires lifelong self-management with regular health professional support and supervision. Estimates of the prevalence of failed appointments at diabetes clinics vary but at less than 10 % appear to be lower than for other non-chronic conditions. Yet the patients who do not attend
Methods of estimating losses to follow-up from a diabetic clinic
β Scribed by Jones, R B ;Medley, A J
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 465 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1357-8170
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