Specialist nurse-led clinics to improve control of hypertension and hyperlipidemia in diabetes: economic analysis of the SPLINT trial

This is a critical abstract of an economic evaluation that meets the criteria for inclusion on NHS EED. Each abstract contains a brief summary of the methods, the results and conclusions followed by a detailed critical assessment on the reliability of the study and the conclusions drawn. The authors concluded that their study demonstrated that the provision of specialist nurse-led clinics, as adjunctive care, was likely to be cost-effective in lowering blood pressure and cholesterol in the hospital-based management of diabetes.