Most primary care physicians can't identify all risk factors for prediabetes
Thursday, July 20, 2017 - 10:32
in Health & Medicine
Researchers who distributed a survey at a retreat and medical update for primary care physicians (PCPs) report that the vast majority of the 140 doctors who responded could not identify all 11 risk factors that experts say qualify patients for prediabetes screening. The survey, they say, is believed to be one of the first to formally test PCPs' knowledge of current professional guidelines for such screening.