Better Care for Patients With Diabetes: e-Medicine Is the Goal
Abstract
I read with interest the recent article by Morrison et al,1 who concluded that patients with diabetes mellitus who visited a primary care provider every 2 weeks more quickly achieved hemoglobin A1c, blood pressure, and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol targets. It is, however, unclear whether these important results were attributable to the visit itself or, more probably, to the closer monitoring of these parameters. Other than with direct access to physician's visit, medication...