Last week I attended ATTD2021 and this week I’m watching talks by the folks at the T1D Exchange QI Collaborative. From the latest and greatest in diabetes technology to findings about patient experiences that could have a major impact on how we deliver care, there is so much going on. ...
Diabetes Is a Community Issue: The Critical Elements of a Successful Outreach and Education Model on the U.S.-Mexico Border1 public healthdiabeteseducationDiabetes is reaching epidemic proportions on the U.S.-Mexico Border, and culturally competent diabetes education is not available ......
Diabetes Dialogue: Patient Considerations for Inhaled Insulin, with Carol Levy, MD Diana Isaacs, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP, BC-ADM, CDCES;Natalie Bellini, DNP, FNP-BC, BC-ADM, CDCE June 30th 2024 Carol Levy, MD, discusses INHALE-3 trial and how to incorporate individual patient-level factors ...
The NKF said in a press release that the award is presented to “someone who has dedicated their career to public service and has helped shape public policies or government programs that improve outcomes for kidney patients.” Ríos Burrows is an epidemiologist in...
Individuals with chronic cyanotic congenital heart disease, chronic liver disease, chronic asthma on high-dose steroids, and diabetes mellitus need 1 dose of PPSV23. They do not need a PCV13. Individuals with a cerebrospinal fluid leak or cochlear implant need 1 dose of PCV13 followed by 1 ...
Meta-analysis of diabetes patient education research: variations in intervention effects across studies[J]. Res Nurs Health, 1992, 15:409-419. [45] Guerci B, Drouin P, Grange V, et al. Self-monitoring of blood glucose significantly improves metabolic control in patients with type 2 diabetes ...
These efforts are welcome because of the lack of effective patient education for pregnant women. But they fail women in a crucial way: They blame mothers for their poor outcomes and fail to address providers’ tendencies to dismiss moms’ complaints. ...
During the pandemic, deaths from accidents, overdoses, alcoholism and homicide all soared, as did deaths from hypertension, heart disease and diabetes... The CDC data show the rate of non-Covid excess deaths in the first half of 2022 was even higher than 2020 or 2021. These deaths therefo...
The CDC states that universal recommendation for HBV vaccination could increase the number of individuals vaccinated before the onset of chronic liver disease and other comorbidities, such as obesity or diabetes, which may make vaccination less effective.1 ...
We know that hypertension and diabetes are both part of the CHA2DS2-VASc score. That’s a very multifaceted role that this place. As clinicians we have to realize that the obese patient is going to be higher risk. We have to really consider that we’re going to provide them an ...