Global health care use by patients with type-2 diabetes: Does the type of comorbidity matter?

European Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 203-210

  Calderon Larranaga A ^a   Abad Diez J M ^a,b   Gimeno Feliu, L A ^a,c   Marta Moreno, J ^a   Gonzalez Rubio F ^a,d   Clerencia Sierra, M ^a   Poblador Plou, B ^a   Poncel Falco A ^a,e   Prados Torres, A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MIGUEL SERVET   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^c Aragon Health Service   (Spain)

^d CS Delicias Norte   (Spain)

^e Aragon Health Service   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electronic health records; Emergency care; Hospitalization; Multimorbidity; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; ANXIETY DISORDER; AORTA ANEURYSM; APHAKIA; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BLADDER CANCER; BLINDNESS; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BREAST CANCER; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CATARACT; CEREBRAL PALSY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLEFT LIP; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMORBIDITY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL HIP DISLOCATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DERMATITIS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIABETIC PATIENT; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISORDERS OF LIPID METABOLISM; DIVERTICULOSIS; ECZEMA; EMERGENCY WARD; EMPHYSEMA; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GALLSTONE FORMATION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GLAUCOMA; GOUT; HAIR DISEASE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEMOPHILIA; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTENSION; HYPOSPADIAS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRRITABLE COLON; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY DISEASE; KYPHOSCOLIOSIS; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; LEG VARICOSIS; LENGTH OF STAY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOW BACK PAIN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; METABOLIC DISORDER; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NEPHRITIS; NEURITIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; OVARY CANCER; PARALYSIS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATITIS; PSORIASIS; QUADRIPLEGIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETINA DISEASE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEIZURE; SKIN CANCER; SKIN ULCER; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STOMACH CANCER; SUBSTANCE USE; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TRACHEOSTOMY; TUBERCULOSIS; UTERUS PROLAPSE; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; AGED; COMPLICATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926410543     PISSN: 09536205     EISSN: 18790828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2015.02.011     Document Type: Article

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