Weekly News Wire | April 21, 2020
10% Of Veterans With Diabetes Discharged With Intensified Diabetes Medications
About 10% of veterans over age 65 with diabetes were discharged from a hospitalization with changes intensifying their outpatient diabetes medication regimens. Nearly half of those who received intensified medications were unlikely to benefit because they had already reached outpatient blood glucose goals or had limited life expectancy.
These findings were reported in “Prevalence of Diabetes Medication Intensifications in Older Adults Discharged From US Veterans Health Administration Hospitals” by Timothy S. Anderson, M.D., MAS; Sei Lee, M.D.; Bocheng Jing, MS; et al. The researchers analyzed data from a cohort of 16,178 older adults hospitalized in the Veterans . . .
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