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
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

Identifiants

pubmed: 30296790
doi: 10.1055/a-0598-4682
doi:

Substances chimiques

Glycated Hemoglobin A 0
Hypoglycemic Agents 0
hemoglobin A1c protein, human 0

Types de publication

Clinical Trial Comparative Study Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

511-516

Informations de copyright

© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Auteurs

Marie Méan (M)

Department of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Gérard Waeber (G)

Department of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Pedro Marques-Vidal (P)

Department of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.

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