Quality Indicators for the Management of Diabetes Mellitus for Vulnerable Older Persons

Building Stones of Resilience of Vulnerable Older Persons

Introduction: Vulnerable older persons need sufficient resilience to deal with (age-related) adversities and safeguard their quality of life. In this study, we investigate which sources of strength vulnerable older persons use to deal adversities. Methods: This qualitative study is based on fifteen narratives of community-dwelling vulnerable older persons in Belgium, who were selected through ...

Caring for the vulnerable elderly: are available quality indicators appropriate?

In October 2007, an update of the quality measures for “The Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders-3 (ACOVE-3)” was published. Clearly patients receiving long-term care represent a vulnerable group and so it is reasonable to inquire whether these indicators are appropriate for our populations. It should be noted that of the 392 quality indicators, 36% were excluded from patients with advanced deme...

Letter to Editor: Positive predictive value of diabetes mellitus risk assessment

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is an important public health challenge [1 ].Different studies predicted that the frequency of diabetic patients will be increased to 642 million throughout the world by 2040 [2]. A notable percentage of diabetic patients are not aware of their disease (approximately 30% in Iran) [3]. Lag in the diagnosis of DM raises the expense of controlling disease and makes the progn...

Quality Indicators for the Management of Visual Impairment in Vulnerable Older Persons

Quality of chronic disease care for older people in care homes and the community in a primary care pay for performance system: retrospective study

OBJECTIVE To describe the quality of care for chronic diseases among older people in care homes (nursing and residential) compared with the community in a pay for performance system. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of The Health Improvement Network (THIN), a large primary care database. SETTING 326 English and Welsh general practices, 2008-9. PARTICIPANTS 10,387 residents of care homes and ...