Teaching diabetes patients the fine art of self-treatmentSouthwick, Karen
A study published in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association reported that almost two-thirds of academic department heads surveyed at US teaching hospitals and medical schools have financial ties to the drug industry. Drug companies "are involved in every aspect of medical care,"...
65 articles were found eligible for assessing the prevalence of diabetes among TB patients and nine for assessing the impact of diabetes on TB treatment outcomes as shown in the figures. (Supplementary
renowned endocrinologist Irl B. Hirsch, MD, professor of medicine and diabetes treatment and teaching chair at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, offered the international audience a list of sites he considers reliable and helpful. ...
WATER stands for Welcome Warmly, Ask and Assess, Tell the Truth, Explain it with Empathy, and Reassure and encourage to Return. These five points encapsulate the basic principles of diabetes/HIV counseling, and are an easy method of teaching health care providers how to deal with patients. ...
Education demands a lot from health care providers: specific training, teaching skills, good communication, supportive attitude, readiness to listen and to negotiate. Patients' motivation to learn and adhere to treatment is also greatly influenced by individual factors, both psychological and ...
Based on these assumptions, the DESG concentrated on the following activities: workshops, congresses, teaching letters, a 5-min education kit, a web-site, and a basic curriculum in therapeutisc patient education. The future of therapeutic patient education in the field of diabetes is discussed....
The best angle for a thin person is 90 degrees with the skin pinched up. The area is not massaged and it is not necessary to warm it. The nurse is performing discharge teaching for a patient with Addison's disease. It is MOST important for the nurse to instruct the patient about:a. ...
for an entire study. We used the same method for predicting the probability of having FPG ≥ 7.0 mmol l−1based on HbA1c. The performance at the individual level reflects how well the prediction equation works for triaging patients for further measurement for diabetes, and the ...
Teaching people with diabetes how to control their blood glucose levels helps them achieve better results, finds a new study in Ethnicity and Disease. Surprisingly, providing intensive training to physicians of diabetes patients did not help patients achieve blood glucose control. ...