Do Hospital Doctors Screen for Diabetes?
Journal
Experimental and clinical endocrinology & diabetes : official journal, German Society of Endocrinology [and] German Diabetes Association
ISSN: 1439-3646
Titre abrégé: Exp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9505926
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Sep 2019
Sep 2019
Historique:
pubmed:
9
10
2018
medline:
31
1
2020
entrez:
9
10
2018
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
One in five hospitalized patients presents with previously undetected diabetes mellitus (DM). We assessed whether hospital doctors measure HbA Data from patients hospitalized between January 2013 and December 2014 in a Swiss teaching hospital was collected. We assessed the frequency of HbA1c measurements and the number of newly detected prediabetes or DM. We also examined whether HbA1c values were associated with the antidiabetic drugs prescription and reporting of DM in the discharge letter. Of the 2618 patients studied, 298 (11.4%) had HbA Hospital doctors seldom prescribe HbA1c measurement in medical hospitalized patients. Prescription of HbA
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
One in five hospitalized patients presents with previously undetected diabetes mellitus (DM). We assessed whether hospital doctors measure HbA
METHODS
METHODS
Data from patients hospitalized between January 2013 and December 2014 in a Swiss teaching hospital was collected. We assessed the frequency of HbA1c measurements and the number of newly detected prediabetes or DM. We also examined whether HbA1c values were associated with the antidiabetic drugs prescription and reporting of DM in the discharge letter.
RESULTS
RESULTS
Of the 2618 patients studied, 298 (11.4%) had HbA
CONCLUSIONS
CONCLUSIONS
Hospital doctors seldom prescribe HbA1c measurement in medical hospitalized patients. Prescription of HbA
Substances chimiques
Glycated Hemoglobin A
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Hypoglycemic Agents
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hemoglobin A1c protein, human
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Types de publication
Clinical Trial
Comparative Study
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
511-516Informations de copyright
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.