title: Controlling costs and improving diabetes care.
abstract: A simplification of the threat that diabetes poses to industrialized society is that the costs of inadequate treatment in terms of dollars, suffering, and functional impairment, despite increasing knowledge, are ever increasing. This increased threat is a result of the combined effects of the rising incidence of diabetes, the increasing costs of adequate care, and the perverse effects of a medical care system that fails to encourage lifelong patient commitment and behavior change.
authors.forename: Harvey L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Eichner
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000191:economics / Q000628:therapy*; D019468:Disease Management; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic