%0 Journal Article %A J S Yudkin %A B J Boucher %A K E Schopflin %A B T Harris %A H R Claff %A N J Whyte %A B Taylor %A D H Mellins %A A B Wootliff %A J G Safir %A E J Jones %T The quality of diabetic care in a London health district. %D 1980 %R 10.1136/jech.34.4.277 %J Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health %P 277-280 %V 34 %N 4 %X In order to assess the quality of care in a community-wide sample of diabetic patients, a study was performed on 217 such patients identified in three group practices in an east London health district. Only 46% of the patients were currently attending a hospital. In the two years before review, 64% of patients had had their blood pressure recorded and 59% had had retinal examinations. Levels of glycosylated haemoglobin were significantly higher in patients on insulin than in those on oral regimes (P = 0.0004). The mean level of glycosylated haemoglobin was higher in patients from Social Classes III, IV, and V than in patients from Social Classes I and II (P = 0.005), but there was no difference in level between those patients attending hospital and those attending their general practitioners after accounting for differences in these two populations (P = 0.19). Over 50% of all diabetic patients in this study had levels of glycosylated haemoglobin which may indicate vulnerability to microvascular disease. %U https://jech.bmj.com/content/jech/34/4/277.full.pdf