The American journal of medicine
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Relationship between diabetes control and pulmonary function in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
To evaluate the effect of different levels of glycemic control on the pulmonary function of subjects with type I insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. ⋯ These data confirm previous reports of abnormal respiratory function in subjects with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and suggest that long-term near-normoglycemia may be beneficial in preventing the deterioration of pulmonary function associated with diabetes mellitus.
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Multicenter Study Clinical Trial
Impact of physician experience on triage of emergency room patients with acute chest pain at three teaching hospitals.
To determine whether the experience of the physician (as measured by postgraduate training level or time during the academic year) who performs the initial evaluation affects the triage of patients with acute chest pain. ⋯ As the experience of the physician who performed the initial evaluation increased, there was a lower threshold for admitting all patients with and without AMI, AIHD, or major complications to the CCU and hospital without a detectable improvement in diagnostic accuracy.
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To determine if differences in morbidity of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) as measured by (1) important renal disease, (2) number of hospitalizations, and (3) neurologic disease can be explained by race, socioeconomic status (SES), or measures of compliance. ⋯ These data fail to support an independent association of black race with morbidity in SLE; rather, they suggest that noncompliance (as measured by physician global assessment) and type of medical insurance are important factors in morbidity. Classical epidemiologic measures of SES (education, income, occupation) do not appear to be significant confounders of the relationship of race to morbidity in SLE.