New research from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) has brought to light the importance of the role of a primary-care physician in a population of diabetes patients. Their findings are published in the medical journal Diabetes Care.
"We found that primary care physicians provide better care to diabetes patients when compared with other providers in a primary- care setting because they were more likely to alter medications and consistently provide lifestyle counseling," says Alexander Turchin, M.D, a physician and researcher in the Division of Endocrinology at BWH and the senior author of the paper.
Source: Diabetes Care
Good Neighbor Pharmacy Health Connection, April 2013
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