National trends in US hospital admissions for hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia among Medicare beneficiaries, 1999 to 2011.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The increasing intensity of diabetes mellitus management over the past decade may have resulted in lower rates of hyperglycemic emergencies but higher rates of hospital admissions for hypoglycemia among older adults. Trends in these hospitalizations and subsequent outcomes are not known.

Objective

To characterize changes in hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia hospitalization rates and subsequent mortality and readmission rates among older adults in the United States over a 12-year period, and to compare these results according to age, sex, and race.

Design, setting, and patients

Retrospective observational study using data from 33,952,331 Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries 65 years or older from 1999 to 2011.

Main outcomes and measures

Hospitalization

SUBMITTER: Lipska KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4152370 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature