Increasing patient empowerment and improving diabetes care by utilizing a computer-based patient "roadmap".
The 20.8 million Americans with diabetes are at risk of amputation, kidney failure, blindness, and death which could be decreased if glucose control were better. Patients need motivation and empowerment to perform the daily management of diabetes. We are using informatics to help them organize their questions for providers and to generate "road maps" of their progress and future directions of care.
Barnes
Catherine S
CS
Emory University School of Medicine, USA.
Tsui
Circe
C
Caudle
Jane
J
Watkins
Noveta
N
Dames
Faye
F
Killian
Sarah M
SM
Watts
Betty
B
Ziemer
David C
DC
D015190:Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring; D019992:Databases as Topic; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D010358:Patient Participation; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D014584:User-Computer Interface