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    "pk": 17715,
    "title": "Prevalence, Health and Demographic Characteristics of Emergency Department Patients with Diabetes",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Objective: To determine the prevalence of diabetes in Southern California emergency department (ED) patients and describe the self-reported general health, demographic and social characteristics of these patients with diabetes.  Methods: Between April 2008 and August 2008, non-critical patients at two Southern California EDs completed a 57-question survey about their chronic medical conditions, general health, social and demographic characteristics.   Results: 11.3% of the 1,303 patients surveyed had diabetes. Patients with diabetes were similar to ED patients without diabetes with respect to gender, ethnicity and race. However, patients with diabetes were older (51 vs. 41), less likely to have a high school education (64.0% vs. 84.7%), less likely to speak English (44.9% vs. 55.4%), and less likely to be uninsured (33.3% vs. 49.5%). Additionally, patients with diabetes had markedly lower self-reported physical health scores (37.1 vs. 45.8) and mental component score and mental health scores (42.0 vs. 47.4) compared with ED patients without diabetes.  Conclusion: In this study of two Southern California EDs, 11.3% of surveyed patients had diabetes. These patients were often poorly educated, possessed limited English language skills and poor physical health. ED personnel and diabetes educators should be mindful of these findings when designing interventions for ED patients with diabetes.  [West J Emerg Med. 2010; 11(5):419-422.]",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Diabetes"
        },
        {
            "word": "Epidemiology"
        },
        {
            "word": "Public Health Interventions"
        },
        {
            "word": "Emergency Medicine"
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        {
            "word": "Medicine"
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Michael",
            "middle_name": "D",
            "last_name": "Menchine",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, CA",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Anita",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Vishwanath",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Orange, CA",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Sanjay",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Arora",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, CA",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2010-01-31T08:00:00Z",
    "date_accepted": "2010-01-31T08:00:00Z",
    "date_published": "2010-11-10T08:00:00Z",
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