The Diabetes In Pregnancy Study group India (DIPSI) is reporting practice guidelines for GDM in the Indian environment. Due to high prevalence, screening is essential for all Indian pregnant women. DIPSI recommends that as a pregnant woman walks into the antenatal clinic in the fasting state, she has to be given a 75g oral glucose load and at 2 hrs a venous blood sample is collected for estimat...

Background: Diabetes is a serious chronic disease, and its increasing prevalence is a global concern. If diabetes mellitus is left untreated, poor control of blood glucose may cause long-term complications. A big challenge encountered by clinicians is the clinical management of diabetes. Many IT-based interventions such ad CDSS have been made to improve the adherence to the standard care for ch...

BACKGROUND Screening to detect prediabetes and diabetes enables early prevention and intervention. This study describes the number and characteristics of asymptomatic, undiagnosed adults in the United States who could be detected with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes using the American Diabetes Association (ADA) guidelines compared to the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) gui...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Most of the clinical guidelines in low-resource countries are adaptations from preexisting international guidelines. This adaptation can be problematic when those international guidelines are not based on current evidence or original evidence-based international guidelines are not followed. This study aims to evaluate the quality of an Indonesian type 2 diabetes m...

Through advances in therapy and technology, the quality of life, morbidity and mortality outcomes in people with type 1 diabetes continue to improve in countries with well-developed health-care systems, but major disparities in diabetes care exist globally. Ideally, an individual with type 1 diabetes should be managed by a multidisciplinary healthcare team delivering integrated clinical care. E...

PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED Adherence to diabetes treatment guidelines is often poor in primary care. OBJECTIVE OF PROGRAM To introduce simple accessible interventions in our clinic to improve both physicians' adherence to diabetes treatment guidelines and patient outcomes. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION A physician and a nurse practitioner used 3 interventions for diabetes care: 30-minute appointments, r...

Introduction Patients with diabetes mellitus comprise over 10% of Kaiser Permanente (KP) nationwide membership. Because complications accompany the disease, patients with diabetes account for a disproportionately increased share of medical expenditures. In the KP Northern California Region, patients with diabetes use 2.4 times more medical resources than patients without diabetes. Cardiovascula...

BACKGROUND There is a huge economic burden of diabetes in South Carolina. METHODS The South Carolina Guidelines for Diabetes Care were based on the 2013 Standards of Medical Care from the American Diabetes Association. RESULTS From a review of the Diabetes Quality Indicators in South Carolina 2007, Medicare claims data show: 65% of South Carolinians with diabetes insured by Medicare receive...