Healthcare Resource Utilization in Patients With Type 1 Diabetes With or Without Prior Type 2 Diabetes Misdiagnosis in a US Managed Care Population Managed Healthcare Executive Between the Lines
Diana Brixner, BPharm, PhD, FAMCP, and Shira Eytan, MD, FACE discuss how misdiagnosis of type 1 diabetes as type 2 diabetes leads to significantly increased healthcare resource utilization, with 31% of type 1 patients having been previously misdiagnosed with type 2 diabetes, resulting in more hospitalizations, emergency visits, and ineffective treatments before receiving proper autoantibody testing and insulin therapy.
EP. 1: Diagnosing Type 1 Diabetes: Clinical Challenges and Consequences
June 25th 2025Panelists 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.
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