title: Diabetic retinopathy: preventive care assurance for high risk diabetics.
abstract: African Americans have a prevalence of diabetes mellitus nearly twice that of whites and are at greater risk of long term complications of diabetes such as diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause of visual loss and impairment among diabetics. The nurse in primary health care systems must play a more fundamental and aggressive role in assuming the consistent incorporation of preventive care and services for diabetics at high risk of diabetic retinopathy. Strategies for improving preventive care assurance are suggested to aid the nurse in identifying high risk diabetics, facilitating secondary prevention as recommended by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and monitoring of preventive care outcomes and status.
authors.forename: G B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Padonu
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D044383:Black People; D003930:Diabetic Retinopathy / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D011322:Primary Prevention; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012307:Risk Factors