Screening for Hypoglycaemia Risk and Medication Changes in Diabetes Patients Using Pharmacy Dispensing Data.

ABSTRACT: Background: To improve hypoglycaemia management in primary care, more insight is needed into the opportunities to screen for hypoglycaemia risk and subsequent treatment modification using routinely available data. Our primary aim was to assess the number of diabetes patients with an estimated high risk of hypoglycaemia and describe the treatment changes in these patients using pharmacy dispensing data. Additionally, our aim was to investigate patient characteristics associated with such treatment changes. Methods: A drug utilisation cohort study with a 1-year follow-up using the IADB.nl pharmacy database was conducted. Patients aged 35 years or older who received at least two glucose-lowering medication dispensings in 2019 were included. Hypoglycaemia risk was determined usin

SUBMITTER: Cahyaningsih I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11477424 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature