Diabetes specialist nurse telemedicine: Admissions avoidance, costs and casemix

Practical Diabetes

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-29

  Evans, Nicholas R ^a,b   Richardson, Liesl S ^a   Dhatariya, Ketan K ^a   Sampson, Mike J ^a  

^a NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b PAPWORTH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Admissions avoidance; Diabetes; Diabetes specialist nurse; Health care commissioning; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETES SPECIALIST NURSE; DYSGLYCEMIA; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INSULIN TREATMENT; KETONURIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TELEMEDICINE; TELEPHONE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 84863616305     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20472900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pdi.1652     Document Type: Article

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