Long-Term Management for Diabetic Patients Under the Home Setting
Aubert R.E., et.al, (1998).Nurse case Management to Improve Glycemic Control in Diabetic Patients in a Health Maintenance Organization. A randomized, controlled trial. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9786807
This is a report on the research on the comparison of diabetes control in patients receiving nurse case management and patients receiving usual care. The research took a randomized controlled trial model. The research was conducted in primary care clinics in a group model health maintenance organization. It involved 121 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and 17 patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus. The intervention that was used in this case study was that the nurse case manager followed the written management algorithm with the direction of the family physician and an endocrinologist. If there were any changes then they would be communicated to the primary care physician. The patients received ongoing care through their primary care physicians. There were sessions for individual patient counseling by a dietitian, exercise therapist. There were group diabetes education classes and quarterly in-person follow-up visits. There were follow-up phone calls as well to remind the patients of the need to inject themselves with the
It will effectively guide the follow-up methods that will be employed in the intervention in the family setting care for people with diabetes. It will also help in shaping the algorithm of the care for the patients with diabetes participating in the research. It is from the model presented in this research report that the research will decide on the number and caliber of health professionals to be used in the research.
Baty P.J., at.al. (2010). A Systematic Approach to Diabetes Mellitus Care in Underserved Populations: Improving Care of Minority and Homeless Persons. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20927670
This is yet another report on the discrepancy in the diabetes care between the racial and ethnic minority groups widely documented. The report outlines the system based approaches that have been used to ensure improvement in diabetes process outcomes in four community health centers that were used in the context of the research. There was a comprehensive system-based disease management process including a diabetes registry that was implemented at the community level. The basis of the research was that diabetes care measures were followed to determine whether disparity in…
Rapid Critical Appraisal A Family-Based Diabetes Intervention for Hispanic Adults and Their Family Members 1. Are the results of the study valid? a. Was there a representative and well defined sample of patients at a similar point in the course of the disease? Yes No Unknown The study recruited participants who had type 2 diabetes and 1 family member from a community clinic that mostly serves uninsired patients. All the participants identified themselves
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Family Values in Nursing There is much credence to the idea that families work together in promoting either bad or good values as it relates to eating habits, general health habits and general health practices. Indeed, a family works as a system, good or bad, to perpetuate good things or bad things over the course of its functioning and existence. Much the same thing happens with nursing as a group of
Diabetes Management Diabetes mellitus is one of the non-communicable diseases that have continued to be in the forefront of public health challenges. Diabetes occurs when the body system is unable to produce sufficient insulin. Typically, insulin is a hormone secreted from the beta cell within the pancreases that regulates the blood sugar as well as assisting in conversion of glucose into energy. Diabetes occurs when there is high level of glucose
Diabetes II Description of the Client Situation: This case examines Type II Diabetes in a 45-year-old black woman, an immigrant from Africa and a high school graduate, whose husband died a year ago. She is a restaurant manager and has a health insurance plan as one of the benefits offered by her employer. Her vision is slightly impaired but that does not concern her much, because with glasses her sight is almost
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