Results of general internal medicine consultations for diabetes mellitus in 283 cancer patients

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 333, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 276-279

  Liu, Wenli ^a   Vyas, Ajit ^a   Escalante, Carmen ^a   Weiser, Mary Ann ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Geraci, Jane M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer control; Cancer patient; Diabetes care; Diabetes mellitus

Indexed keywords

GLIPIZIDE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; INSULIN; METFORMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER THERAPY; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES CONTROL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INSULIN TREATMENT; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PATIENT REFERRAL; REMISSION; STUDENT T TEST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34249059102     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e31805340d4     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Standards of medical care in diabetes. Diabetes Care 2004;27(Suppl 1):S15-35.
2. Harris MI. Medical care for patients with diabetes: epidemiologic aspects. Ann Intern Med 1996;124(1 Pt 2):117-22.
3. Ho M, Marger M, Beart J, et al. Is the quality of diabetes care better in a diabetes clinic or in a general medicine clinic? Diabetes Care 1997;20:472-5.
4. Weiner JP, Parente ST, Garnick DW, et al. Variation in office-based quality: a claims-based profile of care provided to Medicare patients with diabetes. JAMA 1995;273:1503-8.
5. Peters AL, Legorreta AP, Ossorio RC, et al. Quality of outpatient care provided to diabetic patients: a health maintenance organization experience. Diabetes Care 1996;19:601-6.
6. Bertoni AG, Saydah S, Brancati FL. Diabetes and the risk of infection-related mortality in the US. Diabetes Care 2001;24:1044-9.
7. Golden SH, Peart-Vigilance C, Kao WH, et al. Perioperative glycemic control and the risk of infectious complications in a cohort of adults with diabetes. Diabetes Care 1999;22:1408-14.
8. Furnary AP, Gao G, Grunkemeier GL, et al. Continuous insulin infusion reduces mortality in patients with diabetes undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003;125:1007-21.
9. Umpierrez GE, Isaacs SD, Bazargan N, et al. Hyperglycemia: an independent marker of in-hospital mortality in patients with undiagnosed diabetes. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2002;87:978-82.
10. Shah BR, Hux JE. Quantifying the risk of infectious diseases for people with diabetes. Diabetes Care 2003;26:510-3.
11. Laupland KB, Gregson DB, Zygun DA, et al. Severe bloodstream infections: a population-based assessment. Crit Care Med 2004;32:992-7.
12. van den Berghe G, Wouters P, Weekers F, et al. Intensive insulin therapy in the critically ill patients. N Engl J Med 2001;345:1359-67.
13. Meyerhardt JA, Catalano PJ, Haller DG, et al. Impact of diabetes mellitus on outcomes in patients with colon cancer. J Clin Oncol 2003;21:433-40.
14. Weiser MA, Cabanillas ME, Konopleva M, et al. Relation between the duration of remission and hyperglycemia during induction chemotherapy for acute lymphocytic leukemia with a hyperfractionated cyclophosphamide, vincristine, doxorubicin, and dexamethasone/methotrexate-cytarabine regimen. Cancer 2004;100:1179-85.
15. Glynn RJ, Monane M, Gurwitz JH, et al. Aging, comorbidity, and reduced rates of drug treatment for diabetes mellitus. J Clin Epidemiol 1999;52:781-90.
16. Poulson J. The management of diabetes in patients with advanced cancer. J Pain Symptom Manage 1997;13:339-46.
17. Rosenblatt RA, Hart LG, Baldwin LM, et al. The generalist role of specialty physicians: is there a hidden system of primary care? JAMA 1998;279:1364-70.