PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - R. H. Spaulding
AU  - W. B. Spaulding
TI  - The diabetic day-care unit. II. Comparison of patients and costs of initiating insulin therapy in the unit and a hospital
DP  - 1976 May 08
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 780--783
VI  - 114
IP  - 9
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/114/9/780.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/114/9/780.full
SO  - CMAJ1976 May 08; 114
AB  - Fifteen patients began insulin treatment in a diabetic day-care unit and 14 patients began insulin treatment in hospital. The cost per patient of initiating insulin treatment in hospital was nine times the cost in a day-care program. In general, the disease of patients with juvenile-onset diabetes was initially under poorer control in those admitted to hospital than in those in the day-care program. However, the day-care juvenile with disease under poorest control was comparable to the most severely affected patient admitted to hospital. No major differences in the improvements in control achieved by the two programs were found.