Introduction: Proper management of diabetes mellitus (DM) is essential to prevent long-term
complications, improve patients' quality of life, and reduce the economic burden on …

Aims To determine whether telephone and face‐to‐face primary care consultation rates,
costs, and temporal trends during 2000 to 2018 differed by the number of comorbidities in …

Objectives To describe primary care utilisation patterns among adults with type 2 diabetes
and to quantify the association between utilisation and long-term health outcomes. Design …

Objectives Analyze the association between health insurance coverage and the use of
health care services, dentist visits, and self-medication in a national sample of Mexican …

Objective To assess trends in primary and specialist care consultation rates and average
length of consultation by cardiovascular disease (CVD), type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), or …

Background Decisions on the frequency of physician encounters for patients with type 2
diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have significant impacts on both patients' health outcomes and …

Materials and methods A descriptive analysis was conducted using the Spanish Health
National Survey (ENSE, 2012), gathering data on those patients aged 15 and over …

OBJECTIVE: We examined time trends in the use of health care services between diabetic
and nondiabetic adults in Spain and their associations with sociodemographics variables …

Background Visits to the primary diabetes care provider play a central role in diabetes care.
Therefore, patients should attend their primary diabetes care providers whenever a visit is …

Factors affecting utilization of diabetes care are not well-studied. This information may help
develop strategies to improve the efficiency of healthcare systems. We conducted a study to …