Diabetes Care Provided to Children Displaced by Hurricane Katrina

• 2015

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• Troy Quast; Karoline Mortensen
PMID: 26278964DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2015.98

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This article examines the impact of Hurricane Katrina on children with diabetes who were displaced from Louisiana and enrolled in the Texas Medicaid Hurricane Katrina emergency waiver (TexKat). By analyzing enrollment and utilization data, the study compared the outcomes of displaced children with those less affected by the storm. The results showed that children in the waiver did not experience decreased care during the waiver period, but faced a drop in care and an increase in complications after the waiver ended. The study suggests that future emergency waivers should focus on ensuring continued care for enrollees even after the waivers expire to improve outcomes for children with diabetes.

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Focus Areas: Natural Disasters; Severe Weather

Audiences: Emergency Managers; Nurses; Physicians; Public Health Professionals

Emergency Management Stage: Recovery

Bundles: Disaster Research Literature Review

Keywords: Child; Diabetes Mellitus; Emergency Medical Services; Medicaid; Cyclonic Storms; Disaster Medicine

Institutions: University of South Florida; University of Miami

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