quality of life in adolescent girls with diabetes hemmati maslakpak m[1]* received: 22 jun, 2012 accepted: 20 sep, 2012abstractbackground & aims: quality of life is now recognized as an important outcome for adolescents with diabetes. diabetes may affect men and women equally, but the suffering associated with the disease when it appears in adolescent girls will have disastrous effects on their...

BACKGROUND There is now clear evidence that tight control of blood glucose and blood pressure significantly lowers the risk of complications in both type I and type II diabetes. Although there is evidence that primary care can be as effective as secondary care in delivering care for people with diabetes, standards in primary care are variable. Previous studies have shown that practice, patient ...

Background: Better healthcare outcomes in health services are obtainable from frequently observing ongoing healthcare activities, gathering data, and assessing outcomes. Objectives: This study aimed to establish the basic principles of nursing care standards and practices in wards, develop a nursing audit tool for periodically monitoring and controlling o...

PROBLEM System-wide improvement of chronic disease care is challenging because it requires collaboration and communication across organisational and professional boundaries. Managed clinical networks are one potential solution, but there is little evidence of their effectiveness. DESIGN AND SETTING Retrospective, mixed-methods evaluation of the form and impact of quality improvement in the Ta...

illiteracy in studies on quality of life (qol) and self-efficacy (se) of diabetic patients has been ignored. illiteracy and diabetes have high rates in developing countries. the aim of this study was to identify the effect of literacy level on health outcomes. to achieve this, we studied health outcomes such as se, self-management behaviors and health-related quality of life (hrqol) in diabetic...

OBJECTIVES Our main aim was to assess the quality of life (QoL) and treatment satisfaction (TS) of subjects with LADA (latent autoimmune diabetes of the adult) and compare these measures with those of patients with other diabetes types, i.e., type 1 (T1DM) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). METHODS This was a cross-sectional study with a total of 48 patients with LADA, 297 patients with T2D...