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Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation BioMed Central Research Open Access Resource use among patients with diabetes, diabetic neuropathy, or diabetes with depression 1 1 2 Trong K Le , Stephen L Able and Maureen J Lage* Address: 1Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, USA and 2HealthMetrics Outcomes Research, Groton, CT, USA Email: Trong K Le - letr@; Stephen L Able - sable@; Maureen J Lage * - lagemj@ * Corresponding author Published: 23 October 2006 Received: 06 June 2006 Accepted: 23 October 2006 Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2006, 4:18 doi:10.1186/1478-7547-4-18 This article is available from: /content/4/1/18 © 2006 Le et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Diabetes is often associated with complications and comorbidities. The purpose of this research is to compare medical resources used by patients with the following diagnoses: diabetes mellitus (DM), diabetic neuropathy (DN), and diabetes mellitus combined with comorbid depression (DD). Methods: Adult patients who were diagnosed with DM, DN, or DD were included in the study. There were 55,972 patients