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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Med. 2017 Sep 8;131(3):276–283.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2017.08.026

Appendix Table 2.

Median time in days from diagnosis to medication initiation in patients with newly-diagnosed diabetes managed by NPs, PAs or physicians

Days from diagnosis to
medication prescription,
median, (25th, 75th
percentiles)		 NPs PAs Physicians p value,
group
1st oral Rx 0 (0, 8) 0 (0, 29) 0 (0, 28) 0.429
2nd oral Rx 556 (154, 1008) 640 (209,1102) 560 (173, 1030) 0.134
insulin Rx 628 (4, 1177) 559 (1.25, 1117) 537 (1, 1123) 0.481

Time in days from diagnosis to initiation of diabetes medications in patients with newly-diagnosed diabetes who were managed by NPs, PAs or physicians. Median time to medication initiation was compared with Kruskal Wallis and Wilcoxon test