Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 2, Issue 1 , Pages 3-8 , 2008

Priorities for diabetes primary care in Europe

  • Van Eygen Luk

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Watervalstraat 62, 8850 Ardooie, Belgium. Tel.: +32 496100185; fax: +32 51747792.
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  • Sunaert Patricia

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
    • ,
  • Feyen Luc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
    • ,
  • Borgermans Liesbeth

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
    • ,
  • De Maeseneer Jan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Received 2 May 2007 ,Revised 21 November 2007 ,Accepted 25 November 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2007.11.001

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