Beyond evidence-based guidelines to implementation: a model for integrating care for people with diabetes.
There is a growing realization in the health system that integration of effort may be the best way of ensuring optimal outcomes of management both for clinicians and for people using the health system. It is also hypothesized that the impact of diabetes (chronic disease) and its sequelae could be reduced by the provision of well-organized care, based on agreed evidence-based guidelines for best practice, incorporating patient education and early detection of complication. This paper defines the characteristics of an integrated model of providing care to people with diabetes.
Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Westmead Hospital, NSW, Australia.
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Boyages
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D018672:Community Health Planning; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000517:prevention & control*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009517:New South Wales; D010865:Pilot Projects