Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Pages 17-23 , April 2010

The European EUCCLID pilot study on care and complications in an unselected sample of people with type 2 diabetes in primary care

  • Kees J. Gorter

      Affiliations

    • Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), Str 6.105, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, P.O. Box 85060, 3508 AB Utrecht, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 88 756 8154; fax: +31 88 756 9028.
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  • Johan Wens

      Affiliations

    • Johan Wens, University of Antwerp, Belgium
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  • Kamlesh Khunti

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, 22-28 Princess Road West, Leicester LE1 6TP, United Kingdom
    web address
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  • Xavier Cos Claramunt

      Affiliations

    • Sant Martí de Provençals Primary Health Care Centres, Institut Català de la Salut. Catalonian Health Service, Spain
    • Internal Medicine Department, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Plaça infancia s/n., 08020 Barcelona, Spain
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  • Pinar Topsever

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine, Acibadem University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
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  • Thomas Drivsholm

      Affiliations

    • Research Unit of General Practice in Copenhagen, Center for Sundhed og Samfund, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Postboks 2099, 1014 København K, Denmark
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  • Anne Karen Jenum

      Affiliations

    • Oslo Diabetes Research Centre, Oslo University Hospital, Aker, Trondheimsveien 235, 0514 Oslo, Norway
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  • Christophe Berkhout

      Affiliations

    • University of Lille 2–Law and Healthcare, Department of General Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Henri Warembourg, 59045 Lille Cedex, France
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  • Mykola Khalangot

      Affiliations

    • Epidemiology of Diabetes Mellitus Laboratory V.P. Komisarenko Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vyshgorodska 69, Kiev 04114, Ukraine
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  • Margalit Goldfracht

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Health Care, Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, The Technion, Hashachaf 6 Bat Galim, Haifa, Israel
    • Quality Improvement Department, Medicine Division, Community Section, Clalit Health Services, Arlozorov 101 Tel Aviv, 62098, Israel
    web address
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  • Imre Rurik

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine, University Debrecen, P.O. Box 54, 4012 Debrecen, Hungary
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  • Christos Lionis

      Affiliations

    • Clinic of Social and Family Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Crete, P.O. Box 2208, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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  • Guy E.H.M. Rutten

      Affiliations

    • Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands

Received 20 June 2009 ,Revised 22 November 2009 ,Accepted 8 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2010.01.004

Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Pages 17-23 , April 2010

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