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Presents a study on the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of screening for retinopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes. Setting and participants; Main outcome measure; Results; Conclusions.

The article discusses the randomized clinical trial which assessed the effect of personalized diabetic risk assessment on glycemic control during opthalmologic visits. Topics mentioned include the importance in reducing the related complications on diabetes mellitus like blindness, the result that the assessment intervention has no effect to blood glucose control, and the relation of the unsuccessful intervention to asymptomatic outcome of retinopathy.

This article presents a letter to the editor in response to "A 79-year-old woman with diabetes," by M.J. Abraham.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Effects of quality improvement strategies for type 2 diabetes on glycemic control: a meta-regression analysis," by K. G. Shojania, S. R. Ranji and K. M. McDonald.