Endocrine Abstracts

All those involved in delivery of health care are obliged to deliver safe and effective management for patients. Effectiveness is often achieved where specialists for the condition are involved. In contrast, patient-safety depends of recognition of the condition in question and then use of appropriate treatment and management, regardless of who is seeing the patient. This is particularly the case where there may be a rare disease confused for a common one, and where the treatm...

Recently, a position statement of a working group for renaming diabetes insipidus (DI) appeared in several renowned endocrine journals aiming to promote a change in the established name of DI. According to this position statement, the major arguments for renaming DI are: (a) it does not optimally reflect the underlying pathophysiology (b) it is often confused with diabetes mellitus (DM) leading to treatment errors and consequent adverse outcomes for patients. Although the abov...