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Department of Public Health and Family Medicine
Barriers to initiating insulin therapy for patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus on maximum dose of oral agents in public sector primary health care centres in Cape Town, South Africa
Abstract
dc:description.abstractMost patients with type 2 diabetes in Cape Town are attending at primary care community health centers (CHCS) and have unsatisfactory glycaemic control. Insulin therapy is indicated in patients with type 2 diabetes, with inadequate metabolic control on maximum oral therapy. Insulin can be initiated in these CHCs.
Degree
thesis:*- Grantor dc:publisher.institution
- Department of Public Health and Family Medicine
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2002
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Haque, Monirul
- Advisors dc:contributor.advisor
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- Navsa, Mariam
- Levitt, N S
Rights
- Language dc:language.iso
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier.uri
- http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9374
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/9374