Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 2, Issue 4 , Pages 203-205, December 2008

Primary care diabetes in Norway

  • Anne Karen Jenum

      Affiliations

    • Oslo Diabetes Research Centre, Aker University Hospital, University of Oslo, 0514 Oslo, Norway
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +47 91181416; fax: +47 23033422.
    • ,
  • Tor Claudi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Nordland Hospital, Bodø, Norway
    • ,
  • John Graham Cooper

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Stavanger University Hospital, PO Box 8100, 4068 Stavanger, Norway
    • The Norwegian Quality Improvement of Laboratory Services in Primary Care (NOKLUS), Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Received 14 June 2008; accepted 30 June 2008. published online 04 August 2008.

Abstract 

Usually patients with type 1 diabetes are treated by endocrinologists or specialists in internal medicine after the age of 16–18 years, and patients with type 2 diabetes in primary care. Quality of care has improved. A National Diabetes Strategy was launched in 2006. New national clinical guidelines will soon be published.

Keywords: Diabetes, Primary care, Norway

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PII: S1751-9918(08)00073-9

doi:10.1016/j.pcd.2008.06.003

Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 2, Issue 4 , Pages 203-205, December 2008

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