Patients with diabetes requiring emergency department care for hypoglycaemia: Characteristics and long-term outcomes determined from multiple data sources

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 91, Issue 1072, 2015, Pages 65-71

  Rajendran, Rajesh ^a   Hodgkinson, David ^a   Rayman, Gerry ^a  

^a IPSWICH HOSPITAL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; SULFONYLUREA; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; SULFONYLUREA DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLLAPSE; COMORBIDITY ASSESSMENT; CONFUSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREMOR; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA COLLECTION; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INCIDENCE; INSULIN; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SULFONYLUREA COMPOUNDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84922360874     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: 14690756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2014-132926     Document Type: Article

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