OBJECTIVE To describe the results of longitudinal assessment of the results of a disease management process developed in a large integrated health care system that successfully improved care for patients with diabetes. Outcome measures included rates of testing of hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL), rate of annual eye exams, and LDL and HbA1c values. METHODS Intermountai...

background: despite the implementation of new training programs, neglecting individual differences in terms of learning styles can be taken into account as one of the reasons for poor levels of self-care behaviors in patients suffering from diabetes. aim: the purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of training according to the learning styles on self-care behaviors among individu...

BACKGROUND There is growing evidence that practice-based care management can improve clinical quality and reduce costly healthcare utilization. OBJECTIVES To explore how a disparate group of patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) embedded care management in their team care environment to identify best practices. STUDY DESIGN A positive deviance approach was used to contrast care management ...

conclusions sphingomonas paucimobilis can cause serious infections, especially in immunocompromised patients with determined risk factors such as indwelling catheters and diabetes mellitus, due to the effects of multiple virulence factors, together with biofilm formation. results all the clinical isolates of s. paucimobilis produced biofilms. primary bacteraemia (n = 16) was the most common cli...

maternal diabetes has teratogenic effects on the evolution of the fetal cardiovascular system; as a consequence, cardiovascular malformations are the most common anomalies in infants of diabetic mothers. the present study focuses on the association of all types of diabetes in mothers with the incidence of congenital cardiovascular malformations in their infants. in this retrospective case-contr...

OVERVIEW: Just as treatment guidelines for diabetes care were at the forefront of medical guideline development,1 diabetes has been a prominent focus of performance measurement and quality improvement initiatives for well over a decade. However, the constraints of preelectronic health records (EHRs) data systems have consistently limited the clinical scope and sophistication of current diabetes...