Diana Brixner, Ph.D., B.Pharm., FAMCP

Panelists discuss how patients with prior type 2 diabetes misdiagnosis showed significantly higher healthcare utilization rates across all categories (inpatient admissions, emergency visits, outpatient visits, lab procedures, and medications) compared to those correctly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes from the beginning.

Panelists discuss how their study compared healthcare resource utilization between newly diagnosed patients with type 1 diabetes with and without prior type 2 diabetes misdiagnosis, using a retrospective claims database analysis to examine utilization patterns across different healthcare services.

Panelists discuss how type 1 diabetes is diagnosed using autoantibody testing and the challenges clinicians face, including the common misdiagnosis of adults with type 1 diabetes as having type 2 diabetes due to age bias and the misconception that type 1 diabetes only occurs in childhood.