Emergency Department Use in Black Individuals With Diabetes

What is it about?

Among Black individuals with diabetes, an interprofessional intervention was no better than usual medical care at preventing return diabetes-related ED visits/hospitalizations. High medical morbidity, high anticholinergic burden, low satisfaction with primary care physicians, and physician mistrust were associated with diabetes-related ED visits/hospitalizations independent of treatment. This RCT highlights the challenges to reducing the need for ED visits among Black individuals with diabetes and the need to address systemic health care inequities.

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