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Cost Effectiveness Of Screening Of All Newly Recruited Employees For Diabetes At A Tertiary Care Hospital, Niloufer Sultan Ali, Ali Khan Khuwaja
Cost Effectiveness Of Screening Of All Newly Recruited Employees For Diabetes At A Tertiary Care Hospital, Niloufer Sultan Ali, Ali Khan Khuwaja
Department of Anaesthesia
Diabetes Mellitus is a disease which remains asymptomatic for long duration of time and usually diagnosed either when gets complicated or by routine or opportunistic screening. The practice of universal screening is not recommended, particularly in constraint resources . However, we embarked with a study to assess the yield of recommended screening for Type 2 diabetes in all the newly recruited employees at a tertiary care hospital in Karachi. Methods: All the information required for this study was collected from medical records of all newly recruited employees of nursing services department of a tertiary care hospital of Karachi, Pakistan, over …