Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Pages 33-39 , April 2010

Suboptimal quality of type 2 diabetes care discovered through electronic feedback led to increased nurse–GP cooperation. A qualitative study

  • Trine Lignell Guldberg

      Affiliations

    • Department of General Practice, Institute of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark
    • Research Unit for General Practice, Institute of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of General Practice, Institute of Public Health, Aarhus University, Bartholins Allé 2, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. Tel.: +45 89426055.
    • ,
  • Peter Vedsted

      Affiliations

    • Research Unit for General Practice, Institute of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark
    • ,
  • Torsten Lauritzen

      Affiliations

    • Department of General Practice, Institute of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark
    • ,
  • Vibeke Zoffmann

      Affiliations

    • Steno Diabetes Center, Niels Steensens vej 2, Gentofte, Denmark

Received 1 December 2009 ,Accepted 4 January 2010.

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 Trial registration number: NCT01009528.

PII: S1751-9918(10)00002-1

doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2010.01.001

Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Pages 33-39 , April 2010

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