A5115804880- Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Peripheral Nerve Disorders
- Healthcare Systems and Technology
- Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders
University of Michigan
2025
Timely access to specialist care is crucial in expeditious diagnosis and treatment. Our study aimed assess the time patients wait from being referred by a physician seeing neurologist using Medicare data. Specifically, we evaluated differences related sex, race/ethnicity, geography, availability of neurologists. We conducted cross-sectional analysis 2018-2019 sample who had new patient visit neurologist. primary outcome was between their last with referring first (the index visit). also...
This cross-sectional study compares the diagnostic testing for patients with peripheral neuropathy of from 1998 to 2007 in 2019.
The effect of diabetes subtypes on neuropathy prevalence and metabolic drivers this relationship are unknown. Using electronic medical records from 50 care centers in eight states India with biothesiometer complete phenotyping data 22,348 patients, we determined stratified by India-specific evaluated associations (biothesiometer). Neuropathy was highest severe insulin-deficient (SIDD; 25.5%), followed insulin-resistant obese (IROD; 21.8%), mild age-related (MARD; 18.9%), combined deficient...