Mortality and predictors of mortality caused by cancer from discharged hospitalized diabetic patients in a medical center

• In: Hospital Pharmacy - Posters
• At: Basel (Switzerland) (2008)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: HPS-P-016
• By: WU, Mei-chun (Department of Pharmacy, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, China Taiwan)
• Co-author(s): Lee, Wen-Jane (Department of Medical Education and Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, China Taiwan)
  Lee, I-Te (Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, China Taiwan)
  Lin, Shih-Yi (Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, China Taiwan)
  Tseng, Li-Nien (Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, China Taiwan)
  Liu, Ying-Mei (Department of Pharmacy, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, TAICHUNG, China Taiwan)
  Tang, Ni-Hu (Department of Pharmacy, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, TAICHUNG, China Taiwan)
  Cheng, Huang-Chi (Department of Pharmacy, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, TAICHUNG, China Taiwan)
  Sheu, Wayne H-H (Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, China Taiwan)
  
• Abstract:

  Abstract
  
  Background: Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in Taiwan. However, there have been few long-term follow-up studies regarding discharged hospitalized diabetic individuals who died from cancer. In order to investigate the mortality rate and identify possible predictive factors of mortality caused by cancer in diabetic inpatients, ..

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