Table 1.
Appropriateness of diabetes therapy results in OptumLabs Data Warehouse. Overall results are calculated per low-complexity and high-complexity subgroups and for the whole study population
| hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) | Potentially undertreated (consider intensification) | Appropriate | Potentially overtreated (consider deintensification) | |||
| Low complexity (%) | High complexity (%) | Low complexity (%) | High complexity (%) | Low complexity (%) | High complexity (%) | |
| <5.6% | – | – | 3997 (54.2) | 636 (8.6) | 1934 (26.2) | 801 (10.9) |
| 5.6%–6.4% | – | – | 47 139 (75.1) | 4628 (7.4) | 7616 (12.1) | 3411 (5.4) |
| 6.5%–6.9% | – | – | 36 634 (89.1) | 2948 (7.2) | – | 1551 (3.8) |
| 7.0%–7.9% | 11 495 (23.7) | – | 31 577 (65.0) | 5488 (11.3) | – | – |
| 8.0%–8.9% | 7337 (33.7) | 72 (0.3) | 11 771 (54.0) | 2616 (12.0) | – | – |
| ≥9.0% | 22 175 (90.0) | 2453 (10.0) | – | – | – | – |
| Overall | 41 007 (22.6) | 2525 (10.3) | 131 118 (72.2) | 16 316 (66.3) | 9550 (5.3) | 5763 (23.4) |
| 43 532 (21.1) | 147 434 (71.5) | 15 313 (7.4) | ||||