title: An Audit of Diabetes Control and Management (ADCM).
abstract: Diabetes is a chronic condition that is one of the major causes of illness, disability, and death in Malaysia. Cost in managing diabetes plus indirect cost of lost work, pain, and suffering have all increased. The optimal management of patients with diabetes require the tracking of patients over time to monitor the progression of the disease, compliance with treatment, and preventive care. Diabetes care can be improved by standardizing access to, and improving the use of, clinical information. Access to timely, accurate and well-organized electronic data will improve the quality of care for patients with diabetes. Clinical Research Center convened an expert workshop to forecast how physicians, hospitals and clinics will employ clinical information technology (IT) applications to diabetes care over the next year. Workshop participants included experts from research organizations, government, and the IT vendor. This is a summary of the workshop organised for the purpose of the Audit of Diabetes Control and Management (ADCM) project. We hope to identify the gaps, if any, that exists in delivering diabetes care and to improve the quality of care. In future, we hope to develop an expansion of this project for the Adult Diabetes Registry that will be implemented for the whole country.
authors.affiliation: Kuala Pilah Health Clinic, 72000 Kuala Pilah, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mastura
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zanariah
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fatanah
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Feisul Idzwan
authors.forename: M Y
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Wan Shaariah
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jamaiyah
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Geeta
mesh_terms: D015331:Cohort Studies; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004493:Education; D006801:Humans; D008296:Malaysia / Q000453:epidemiology; D008485:Medical Audit; D015995:Prevalence; D016730:Program Development; D012042:Registries