National trends in US hospital admissions for hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia among medicare beneficiaries, 1999 to 2011

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 174, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1116-1124

  Lipska, Kasia J ^a   Ross, Joseph S ^a,b   Wang, Yun ^b,c   Inzucchi, Silvio E ^a   Minges, Karl ^b   Karter, Andrew J ^d   Huang, Elbert S ^e   Desai, Mayur M ^a   Gill, Thomas M ^a   Krumholz, Harlan M ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MALE; MEDICARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84904128236     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.1824     Document Type: Article

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