Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 2, Issue 2 , Pages 73-80 , June 2008

Opting out of an integrated healthcare system: Dual-system use is associated with poorer glycemic control in veterans with diabetes

  • Drew Helmer

      Affiliations

    • VA-New Jersey Health Care System-Center for Healthcare Knowledge Management, East Orange, NJ, USA
    • University of Medicine and Dentistry-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, 2002 Holcombe Blvd (111PC), Houston, TX 77030, USA. Tel.: +1 713 791 1414x6367; fax: +1 713 794 7086.
    • ,
  • Usha Sambamoorthi

      Affiliations

    • VA-New Jersey Health Care System-Center for Healthcare Knowledge Management, East Orange, NJ, USA
    • University of Medicine and Dentistry-New Jersey School of Public Health, Newark, NJ, USA
    • ,
  • Yujing Shen

      Affiliations

    • VA-New Jersey Health Care System-Center for Healthcare Knowledge Management, East Orange, NJ, USA
    • ,
  • Chin-Lin Tseng

      Affiliations

    • VA-New Jersey Health Care System-Center for Healthcare Knowledge Management, East Orange, NJ, USA
    • University of Medicine and Dentistry-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
    • ,
  • Mangala Rajan

      Affiliations

    • VA-New Jersey Health Care System-Center for Healthcare Knowledge Management, East Orange, NJ, USA
    • ,
  • Anjali Tiwari

      Affiliations

    • VA-New Jersey Health Care System-Center for Healthcare Knowledge Management, East Orange, NJ, USA
    • ,
  • Miriam Maney

      Affiliations

    • VA-New Jersey Health Care System-Center for Healthcare Knowledge Management, East Orange, NJ, USA
    • ,
  • Leonard Pogach

      Affiliations

    • VA-New Jersey Health Care System-Center for Healthcare Knowledge Management, East Orange, NJ, USA
    • University of Medicine and Dentistry-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA

Received 15 August 2007 ,Revised 27 February 2008 ,Accepted 27 February 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2008.02.004

Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 2, Issue 2 , Pages 73-80 , June 2008

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