Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 3, Issue 2 , Pages 91-96 , May 2009

Do current standards of primary care of diabetes meet with guideline recommendations in Trinidad, West Indies?

  • Lexley M. Pinto Pereira

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: The University of the West Indies, Faculty of Medical Sciences, EWMSC, Trinidad and Tobago. Tel.: +1 868 663 8613; fax: +1 868 663 8613.
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  • Avery Hinds

      Affiliations

    • The North West Regional Health Authority, West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
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  • Issa Ali

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
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  • Ravita Gooding

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
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  • Michelle Ragbir

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
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  • Kavita Samaroo

      Affiliations

    • The North West Regional Health Authority, West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
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  • Shivananda B. Nayak

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

Received 4 December 2008 ,Revised 13 February 2009 ,Accepted 22 March 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2009.03.003

Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 3, Issue 2 , Pages 91-96 , May 2009

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