Emergency room visit: a red-flag indicator for poor diabetes care

Diabetic Medicine : a Journal of the British Diabetic Association
Z SternA Tirosh

Abstract

To determine the association between emergency room (ER) admission and quality of diabetes care in the community. In a nested case-control study of patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) within a large health maintenance organization (HMO) in Israel, 919 patients who were admitted to one of West Jerusalem's ERs between 1 May and 30 June 2004 were compared with 1952 control subjects not admitted. Data on study covariates were retrieved from the HMO's computerized database and a subset of the study population was interviewed. Logistic regressions were conducted to estimate the odds ratios of being admitted according to different measures of quality of care, controlling for socio-demographic variables, co-morbidities and type of DM treatment. The main indices of quality of primary care that were inversely associated with visiting an ER during the study period included performance of a cholesterol test in the year prior to the index date [adjusted odds ratio (OR) 0.23, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.19-0.29, P < 0.001], performance of glycated haemoglobin test (OR 0.26, 95% CI 0.24-0.29, P < 0.001), visiting an ophthalmologist (OR 0.47, 95% CI 0.32-0.68, P = 0.001), and recommendations to stop smoking (OR 0.10, 95% CI 0.05-0.2...Continue Reading

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