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- Title
Nontargeted Diabetes Screening in a Navajo Nation Emergency Department.
- Authors
Anderson, Erik S.; Dworkis, Daniel A.; DeFries, Triveni; Emery, Eleanor; Deegala, Chandima; Mohs, Kimberly
- Abstract
We developed a nontargeted diabetes screening program in a rural Indian Health Service emergency department in Shiprock, New Mexico to measure the proportion of previously undiagnosed diabetes and prediabetes, and to assess glycemic control among patients with known disease. Of 924 patients screened in the emergency department between May and July 2017, 28.8% screened positive for previously undiagnosed diabetes or prediabetes; among patients with known disease, the median hemoglobin A1c was 8.2%. Of the newly identified patients, 54.9% attended follow-up.
- Subjects
SHIPROCK (N.M.); NAVAJO Nation; MEXICO; DIAGNOSIS of diabetes; MEDICAL screening; MEDICAL care of Native Americans; HOSPITAL emergency services; RURAL Americans; GLYCEMIC control; PREDIABETIC state; RURAL health services; GLYCOSYLATED hemoglobin; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2019, Vol 109, Issue 2, p270
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.2018.304799