Do Adult Patients With Type 1 or 2 Diabetes Who Present to the Emergency Department With Hyperglycemia Have Improved Outcomes if They Have Access to Specialized Diabetes Care?
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Do Adult Patients With Type 1 or 2 Diabetes Who Present to the Emergency Department With Hyperglycemia Have Improved Outcomes if They Have Access to Specialized Diabetes Care?
OBJECTIVES Few studies have examined the effect of specialized care on patients with diabetes who present to the emergency department (ED) visits for acute hyperglycemia. The objective of this study was to characterize ED patients presenting with hyperglycemia and compare the 30-day outcomes of those followed by specialized diabetes clinics with those not followed. We hypothesized that patients followed by specialized clinics would have improved clinical outcomes compared with those who had no specialized follow up. METHODS We conducted this single-centre retrospective cohort study of adults (≥18 years) with an ED visit for hyperglycemia over 1 year (January to December 2014). Data from ED visits were linked to specialized diabetes clinic records, which contained diabetes-specific clinical data not available in ED visit records. Descriptive statistics were summarized and comparisons between groups were performed, when appropriate. RESULTS There were 456 patients (55.0% men; mean age, 47.7 years; 46.3% with type 1 diabetes) with 250 followed by the specialized diabetes clinics. The 206 patients who were not followed by the diabetes clinics (45%) were more likely to have a recurrent hyperglycemia ED visit (32.5% vs 9.6%, p
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