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Hellman R, Regan J, Rosen H. Effect of intensive treatment of diabetes on the risk of death or renal failure in NIDDM and IDDM. Diabetes Care 1997; 20(3):258-264.
"In 1997, I presented a 14-year study on diabetes outcomes, published in Diabetes Care," Hellman notes. "We’ve done more research since then, and when we looked at people with diabetes who died of a medical error within 48 hours, one-third of those involved error in insulin administration."
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