BACKGROUND Metabolic and cardiovascular health problems have become a major focus for clinical care and research in schizophrenia. AIMS To evaluate the content and quality of screening guidelines for cardiovascular risk in schizophrenia. METHOD Systematic review and quality assessment of guidelines/recommendations for cardiovascular risk in people with schizophrenia published between 2000 a...

Diabetes requiring insulin is increasingly common and likely to impact students in most, if not all, schools. Diabetes and its complications have major personal, social and economic impact, and improved diabetes control reduces the risk of both short- and long-term complications. Evidence shows that more intensive management of diabetes - through frequent blood glucose monitoring, insulin admin...

Background Many efficacious health service interventions to improve diabetes care are known. However, there is little evidence on whether such interventions are effective while delivered in real-world resource-constrained settings. Objective To evaluate an intervention aimed at improving diabetes care using the RE-AIM (reach, efficacy/effectiveness, adoption, implementation, and maintenance) fr...

88 Journal of Diabetes Nursing Volume 19 No 3 2015 AS diabetes professionals, we face a daily dilemma: how do we keep up with all the new research relating to diabetes care? Like all the other information we are subjected to, we filter out what is useful and what is not. Thankfully, the Internet helps us to pinpoint research of interest with a few clicks of the mouse. It was on the Internet tha...

BACKGROUND In Italy, diabetes centres are considered to provide adequate care but little is known about their performance. METHODS Inpatient and outpatient administrative databases were used to select and study a cohort of 2,568 diabetic patients. Adherence to guidelines and effect of patient characteristics and diabetes centre on treatment was assessed. Mortality rate was calculated. RESUL...

A literature review revealed no evidence-based guidelines specific to managing diabetes in the context of palliative care. The purpose of the current project was to describe the management practices of doctors and nurses caring for people with diabetes and advanced disease. Palliative care doctors, palliative care nurses, endocrinologists, and diabetes nurse educators participated in this study...

Rates of diabetes are increasing in Canada,1 and family physicians remain the main point of primary care for people with diabetes.2 The challenge for physicians in this context is to design realistic treatment plans and negotiate priorities to maximize health benefits for these patients. This article summarizes recommendations from the Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA) 2008 clinical practice ...

Guidelines have recommended significant reductions in dietary sodium intake to improve cardiovascular health. However, these dietary sodium intake recommendations have been questioned as emerging evidence has shown that there is a higher risk of cardiovascular disease with a low sodium diet, including in individuals with type 2 diabetes. This may be related to the other pleotropic effects of di...