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Although most patients are discharged from the ED without requiring hospitalization, it is unknown how often these individuals obtain outpatient follow-up care for medication adjustment, symptom monitoring, and counseling.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To describe incidence, timing, and patient characteristics associated with outpatient follow-up after discharge from the ED for diabetes-related encounters in a national cohort.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Design<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Retrospective cohort study.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Participants<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Adults with commercial insurance or Medicare Advantage who were discharged from the ED with principal encounter diagnosis related to type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Main Measures<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The primary outcome was an outpatient visit for diabetes-related care within 30 days of ED discharge. Return ED visit prior to outpatient follow-up was treated as a competing outcome. Multivariable competing risk regression models were used to estimate adjusted hazard ratios (aHRs) for patient characteristics associated with obtaining follow-up, including demographic, socioeconomic, and clinical factors.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Key Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Of the 131,881 patients included in this study (mean age, 63.0 years; 51.6% female), 60,798 (46.1%) obtained outpatient follow-up within 30 days, while 17,099 (13.0%) returned to the ED prior to follow-up. Follow-up rates increased modestly over the study period, from 44% in 2016 to 49% in 2022. In adjusted analyses, older age, commercial insurance, and greater prior outpatient care engagement were associated with higher likelihood of follow-up. Patients with Non-Hispanic Black race, Medicare low-income subsidy, greater comorbidity burden, and diagnosis of type 1 diabetes had lower likelihood of follow-up.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this study, fewer than half of adults discharged from the ED after diabetes-related encounters obtained outpatient follow-up within 30 days. 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