• Rafael Cuervo Pinto, Esther Álvarez-Rodríguez, Noemí González Pérez de Villar, Sara Artola-Menéndez, Juan Girbés Borrás, Manel Mata-Cases, Mercedes Galindo Rubio, Juan Puig Larrosa, Ricardo Muñoz Albert, and José Ángel Díaz Pérez.
• Servicio de Urgencias, Hospital Universitario Clínico San Carlos. Madrid, España. Grupo de Trabajo SEMESDiabetes.
• Emergencias. 2017 Oct 1; 29 (5): 343-351.

EnEighty to 90% of patients attended in emergency departments are discharged to home. Emergency department physicians are therefore responsible for specifying how these patients are treated afterwards. An estimated 30% to 40% of emergency patients have diabetes mellitus that was often decompensated or poorly controlled prior to the emergency. It is therefore necessary to establish antidiabetic treatment protocols that contribute to adequate metabolic control for these patients in the interest of improving the short-term prognosis after discharge. The protocols should also maintain continuity of outpatient care from other specialists and contribute to improving the long-term prognosis. This consensus paper presents the consensus of experts from 3 medical associations whose members are directly involved with treating patients with diabetes. The aim of the paper is to facilitate the assessment of antidiabetic treatment when the patient is discharged from the emergency department and referred to outpatient care teams.

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