Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 3, Issue 2 , Pages 67-72 , May 2009

Compliance with the quality standards of National Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Committee

Received 4 January 2009 ,Revised 21 May 2009 ,Accepted 26 May 2009.

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☆ This work has been presented as a poster and rapid fire presentation at the Annual Meeting of Royal College of Ophthalmologists, 2008.

☆☆ This work was also presented at the Annual Meeting of the Diabetic Retinopathy Screening committee, 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2009.05.005

Primary Care Diabetes
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