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.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2008.06.003

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

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