National Healthcare Disparities Report - LDI Health Economist
National Healthcare Disparities Report - LDI Health Economist
National Healthcare Disparities Report - LDI Health Economist
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Effectiveness of Care<br />
Diabetes<br />
Importance<br />
Mortality<br />
Number of deaths (2007).....................................................................................70,905 (Kochanek, et al., 2011)<br />
Chapter 2 Diabetes<br />
Cause of death rank (2010)......................................................................................................7th (NHLBI, 2010)<br />
Prevalence<br />
Total number of people with diabetes (2010) ............................................................25.8 million (CDC, 2011d)<br />
Number of people with diagnosed diabetes (2010) ...................................................18.8 million (CDC, 2011d)<br />
Number of people with undiagnosed diabetes (2010).................................................7.0 million (CDC, 2011d)<br />
Incidence<br />
New cases (age 20 and over, 2010) ..............................................................................1.9 million (CDC, 2011d)<br />
Cost<br />
Total cost (2007) ………. ...........................................................................................$174 billion (CDC, 2011d)<br />
Direct medical costs (2007) ........................................................................................$116 billion (CDC, 2011d)<br />
Indirect costs (2007).....................................................................................................$58 million (CDC, 2011d)<br />
Measures<br />
Routine monitoring of blood glucose levels with hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c xiv ) tests and foot and dilated eye<br />
examinations have been shown to help prevent or mitigate complications of diabetes, such as diabetic<br />
neuropathy, retinopathy, and vascular and kidney disease. With more than half a million discharges in 2006,<br />
diabetes is one of the leading causes of hospitalization in the United States (CDC, 2009). However, with<br />
appropriate and timely ambulatory care, it may be possible to prevent many hospitalizations for diabetes and<br />
related complications.<br />
The measures reported in this section examine the extent to which individuals with diabetes receive care<br />
needed to prevent complications and the development of kidney failure, a serious complication of diabetes:<br />
n Receipt of four recommended diabetes services.<br />
n Hospitalization for short-term diabetes complications.<br />
n Development of kidney failure due to diabetes.<br />
xiv HbA1c, or glycosylated hemoglobin, is a measure of average levels of glucose in the blood.<br />
70 <strong>National</strong> <strong><strong>Health</strong>care</strong> <strong>Disparities</strong> <strong>Report</strong>, 2011