title: Prevalence and cost of possibly unnecessary venous blood glucose measurements in primary care.
abstract: The American Diabetes Association issues annually its recommendations for diabetes mellitus screening. Although there is a high proportion of people with undiagnosed diabetes in the general population, it is suspected that many of these screening tests could be needless. An analysis was made of the number of venous blood glucose measurements that did not meet the American Diabetes Association requirements performed in 150 people seen in primary care. On average, an unnecessary venous blood glucose measurement is performed every 15 months. The number is significantly higher in people over 45 years of age, and also in women as compared to men (although with a p value slighty higher than 0.05).
authors.affiliation: Centro de Salud Teis, Atención Primaria Área Sanitaria de Vigo, España. Electronic address: coral.diez.perez@sergas.es.
authors.forename: Coral
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Díez Pérez
authors.forename: Rosa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rodríguez Ferro
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Penín Álvarez
mesh_terms: D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis*; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000097:blood* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003940:Diagnostic Techniques, Endocrine / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011320:Primary Health Care; D019564:Unnecessary Procedures / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose
keywords: Cribado; Diabetes; Glucemia venosa; Screening; Venous blood glucose