Help! Nursing School Diabetes Research Topic

I’m gonna start a citation list for you with some of the ideas mentioned above:

Price of Insulin
http://harvardpolitics.com/united-states/how-insulin-became-unaffordable/

Discrimination
http://main.diabetes.org/dorg/PDFs/Advocacy/forecast-stories/2009-05-defeating-discrimination.pdf

Quality of tools for managing the illness
Note: The following article is one of the most interesting I’ve read lately, but needs further investigation. People are scrambling to investigate insulin quality after it was published. It was posted by a member here: Insulin Concentration in Vials Randomly Purchased in Pharmacies in the United States: Considerable Loss in the Cold Supply Chain authors: Alan W. Carter, and Lutz Heinemann (you’ll have to get this from your library. It took me a while to get, but its not published online)

https://www.diabetestechnology.org/surveillance.shtml

Healthcare Data and Device Cybersecurity
If you need anything on healthcare device and data security, here’s my paper from last year. Its got a bunch of stuff in the bibliography you can use. It talks about how vulnerable our medical information is once it gets into the computer system at the hospital and how frequently hospitals are breached. Its a hot topic, but difficult problem to fix.

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