Initial Therapeutic Choices for Type 2 Diabetes in the Portuguese Sentinel Practice Network

Introduction: Type 2 diabetes is a major driver of pharmaceutical spending. We aimed to determine the proportion of new patients who begin treatment with each antidiabetic medicine class, if therapy was initiated by their family physician, if family physicians alter prescriptions initiated by other...

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Main Author: Pinto, Daniel (author)
Other Authors: Rodrigues, Ana Paula (author), Nunes, Baltazar (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2020
Subjects:
Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
Cross-Sectional Studies
Dipeptidyl-Peptidase IV Inhibitors
Disease Notification
Family Practice
Female
Humans
Hypoglycemic Agents
Insulin
Life Style
Male
Metformin
Middle Aged
Aged
Practice Patterns, Physicians'
Diabetes Mellitus Tiye 2/Drug Therapy
Primary Health Care
Sentinel Surveillance
Portugal
Diabetes Mellitus Tipe 2/tratamento
Hipoglicemiantes
Cuidados de Saúde
Cuidados de Saúde Primários
Vigilância de Evento Sentinela
Médicos-sentinela
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/7180
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.insa.pt:10400.18/7180

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