Diabetes in institutionalised elderly people: a forgotten population?

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Published in BMJ on June 28, 1997

Authors

S J Benbow1, A Walsh, G V Gill

Author Affiliations

1: Diabetes Centre, Walton Hospital, Liverpool.

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