Hospital readmission and emergency department use based on prescribing patterns in patients with severely uncontrolled type 2 diabetes mellitus

Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 150-155

  Lee, Phillip H ^a   Franks, Andrea S ^b,c   Barlow, Patrick B ^c   Farland, Michelle Z ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INSULIN TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNCONTROLLED TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS; ANXIETY; BLOOD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPLICATION; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ETIOLOGY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; METABOLISM; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ANXIETY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT READMISSION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896895590     PISSN: 15209156     EISSN: 15578593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/dia.2013.0168     Document Type: Article

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