Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 2, Issue 1 , Pages 39-44 , 2008

Racial/ethnic and educational-level differences in diabetes care experiences in primary care

  • George L. Jackson

      Affiliations

    • Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
    • Division of General Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, HSR&D Service (152), 508 Fulton Street, Durham, NC 27705, USA. Tel.: +1 919 286 0411x7091; fax: +1 919 416 5836.
    • ,
  • Morris Weinberger

      Affiliations

    • Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
    • Department of Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
    • ,
  • Natia S. Hamilton

      Affiliations

    • Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
    • Department of Psychology, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, USA
    • ,
  • David Edelman

      Affiliations

    • Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
    • Division of General Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Received 31 August 2007 ,Revised 12 November 2007 ,Accepted 27 November 2007.

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☆ Preliminary results were presented at the AcademyHealth Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL on 4 June 2007.

PII: S1751-9918(07)00170-2

doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2007.11.002

Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 2, Issue 1 , Pages 39-44 , 2008

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