Does ethnic diversity remain scarce in academic plastic and reconstructive surgery?
Over the last 40 years, plastic surgery has been ineffective in adequately increasing the number of minority residents and faculty. Expanding the number of minority academic plastic surgeons could establish a health care environment more accommodating to minority patients, increase studies highlighting minority health needs, and provide additional role models and mentors.
The significantly higher mortality in the NDR population not identified by the regional algorithm may stem from differences between the components of the two algorithms, i.e. frequency of glucose measurements in the NDR versus frequency of HbA1c measurements including elevated values in the regional algorithm. The NDR algorithm, which includes the use of frequency of glucose measurements without a value over the diagnostic threshold, identified about 21% of persons who probably had their glucose measured for other reasons than diabetes.