Fragmented Care for Complex Diabetes Patients Associated With More Emergency Department Use

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire – Disability Support For individuals with complex diabetes, how well their health care was coordinated affected their use of the emergency department. About 90% of people with diabetes have other co-morbid chronic health care conditions (such as heart disease, arthritis, kidney disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or hypertension) and most receive health care services from both primary care physicians and specialists. People with diabetes who also had kidney problems made more emergency department visits when their medical care was poorly coordinated and fragmented among primary care and specialists. People with similarly complex diabetes who had . . .