Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 4, Issue 2 , Pages 73-78 , July 2010

Has pay for performance improved the management of diabetes in the United Kingdom?

  • Riyadh Alshamsan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, Reynolds Building, St Dunstan's Rd, London W6 8RP, UK. Tel.: +44 020 7594 0779; fax: +44 020 7594 0854.
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  • Christopher Millett

      Affiliations

    • Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, UK
    • ,
  • Azeem Majeed

      Affiliations

    • Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, UK
    • ,
  • Kamlesh Khunti

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, UK

Received 12 November 2009 ,Revised 28 January 2010 ,Accepted 15 February 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2010.02.003

Primary Care Diabetes
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