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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 2269573" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>My suggested answer: because the healthcare professionals who ask 'are you diabetic?' when a patient is admitted to hospital with COVID-19 do not have the time or the resources to ask such detailed questions as 'are you T1 or T2, LADA? 3c? MODY? Bronze? Is your HbA1c above 80? 70? 60? 50? 40? Do you experience many hypos? If so, how many times have you required assistance in the last year?' </p><p></p><p>Plus of course the additional admin required entering the data.</p><p></p><p>I suspect that the reality is much more pragmatic. a few questions, just enough to get the person into a bed and onto a ward, with the expectation that staff on the ward will fill in the gaps - which of course they won't have time to do.</p><p></p><p>Don't get me wrong, it would be absolutely wonderful if every patient was subjected to the third degree, at the time of their admission, enabling a beautifully comprehensive database to build up. It would help tremendously, and enable joined up thinking around the world.</p><p></p><p>But even if all the questions were asked, and answered, and recorded, in the words of that well known TV doc, House 'patients lie. All the time.'</p><p>And at the moment, there is a lot of bickering about when/if/whether coronavirus infections are even <strong><em>mentioned </em></strong>on a death certificate, and <em><strong>how </strong></em>that mention should be made. Different countries are handling it completely differently.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 2269573, member: 41816"] My suggested answer: because the healthcare professionals who ask 'are you diabetic?' when a patient is admitted to hospital with COVID-19 do not have the time or the resources to ask such detailed questions as 'are you T1 or T2, LADA? 3c? MODY? Bronze? Is your HbA1c above 80? 70? 60? 50? 40? Do you experience many hypos? If so, how many times have you required assistance in the last year?' Plus of course the additional admin required entering the data. I suspect that the reality is much more pragmatic. a few questions, just enough to get the person into a bed and onto a ward, with the expectation that staff on the ward will fill in the gaps - which of course they won't have time to do. Don't get me wrong, it would be absolutely wonderful if every patient was subjected to the third degree, at the time of their admission, enabling a beautifully comprehensive database to build up. It would help tremendously, and enable joined up thinking around the world. But even if all the questions were asked, and answered, and recorded, in the words of that well known TV doc, House 'patients lie. All the time.' And at the moment, there is a lot of bickering about when/if/whether coronavirus infections are even [B][I]mentioned [/I][/B]on a death certificate, and [I][B]how [/B][/I]that mention should be made. Different countries are handling it completely differently. [/QUOTE]
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