Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 1, Issue 3 , Pages 167-171 , September 2007

The EUCCLID study: Proposed European study on care and complications in people with type 2 diabetes in primary care

  • Inge W.G. Bobbink

      Affiliations

    • Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +31 302507280; fax: +31 302539028.
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  • Kees J. Gorter

      Affiliations

    • Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands
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  • Guy E.H.M. Rutten

      Affiliations

    • Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Johan Wens

      Affiliations

    • University of Antwerp, Faculty of Medicine, Department of General Practice, Interdisciplinary Health Care and Geriatrics, Antwerp, Belgium
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  • Xavier Cos Claramunt

      Affiliations

    • Catalonian Health Institute, Spanish Primary Care Diabetis group (GEDAPS-SEMFYC), Institut d’investigació a l’Atenció Primaria (IDIAP jordi Gol), Barcelona, Spain
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  • Pinar Topsever

      Affiliations

    • Kocaeli University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Kocaeli, Turkey
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  • Kamlesh Khunti

      Affiliations

    • Division of General Practice and Primary Health Care, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
    • ,
  • for the EUCCLID study group

Received 20 July 2007 ,Accepted 20 July 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2007.07.009

Primary Care Diabetes
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