Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 1, Issue 4 , Pages 195-198 , December 2007

Knowledge of blood pressure targets among patients with diabetes

  • Usha Subramanian

      Affiliations

    • Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indianapolis, IN, United States
    • Division of General Medicine & Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, United States
    • IU Center for Health Services & Outcomes Research, Regenstrief Institute, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Roudebush VAMC, IF 122, 250 University Boulevard, Indianapolis, IN 46202, United States. Tel.: +1 317 278 1602; fax: +1 317 278 0911.
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  • T.P. Hofer

      Affiliations

    • Veterans Affairs Health Services Research & Development Center of Excellence, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
    • Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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  • M.L. Klamerus

      Affiliations

    • Veterans Affairs Health Services Research & Development Center of Excellence, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
    • ,
  • B.J. Zikmund-Fisher

      Affiliations

    • Veterans Affairs Health Services Research & Development Center of Excellence, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
    • Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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  • M. Heisler

      Affiliations

    • Veterans Affairs Health Services Research & Development Center of Excellence, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
    • Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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  • E.A. Kerr

      Affiliations

    • Veterans Affairs Health Services Research & Development Center of Excellence, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
    • Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Received 20 February 2007 ,Revised 24 September 2007 ,Accepted 26 September 2007.

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☆ Support: Department of Veterans Affairs, the Veterans Health Administration, Health Services Research and Development IIR 02-225-1, the QUERI DIB-98-001 and the Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center Grant P60DK-20572 from the NIDDK. Michele Heisler is a VA HSR&D Career Development awardee.

PII: S1751-9918(07)00107-6

doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2007.09.001

Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 1, Issue 4 , Pages 195-198 , December 2007

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