Clinicians Following USPSTF Screening Criteria For Diabetes Missed Almost Half Of Adults With Diabetes, Prediabetes

“Clinicians who followed the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force 2015 screening criteria for diabetes missed almost half of the adults who had prediabetes or diabetes and not been previously diagnosed,” researchers concluded after analyzing “data from 3,643 respondents of the National Health and Nutrition Examination 2011 to 2014 Survey who had not been diagnosed with diabetes.” The findings were published online in the Journal of General Medicine. https://www.healio.com/family-medicine/diabetes/news/online/%7B554139e1-3b0a-4cf0-9988-db5da128b7d8%7D/uspstf-criteria-fails-to-identify-almost-half-of-adults-with-prediabetes-diabetes