Diabetes and C-Reactive Protein
- Tom Elasy, MD, MPH, Editor-in-Chief
Since Celsus (∼ 50 BC), who is credited with describing rubor, calor, dolor, and tumor as key attributes of inflammation, pathology has been a foundational study of physicians. The study of the structural and functional processes that underlie disease has always engaged physicians in much the same way that disturbances in economies would attract economists. And, like other professionals, our observations about processes beget inferences that occasionally beget predictions that occasionally beget recommendations.
In this issue, we see several attempts to understand or respond to the processes that underlie dysfunction. At a forest level, Robb Malone, PharmD, CDE, CPP; Betsy Bryant Shilliday, PharmD, CDE, CPP; Timothy J. Ives, PharmD, MPH; and Michael Pignone, MD, MPH (p. 31) describe an attempt to improve care at a large hospital in North Carolina based on perceived dysfunctions in the system that delivers care. With this elegant and detailed description of an attempt to improve diabetes care, …
