Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Pages 35-41 , February 2007

Attitudes of GPs to the diagnosis and management of impaired glucose tolerance: The practitioners’ attitudes to hyperglycaemia (PAtH) questionnaire

Received 19 April 2006 ,Revised 24 July 2006 ,Accepted 25 July 2006.

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☆ The contents of this paper have been previously presented at the 8th International Conference of Primary Care Diabetes Europe, Athens, Greece in September 2005 and as a poster at the 1st International Congress on “Prediabetes” and the Metabolic Syndrome, Berlin, Germany in April 2005.

PII: S1751-9918(06)00005-2

doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2006.07.003

Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Pages 35-41 , February 2007

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