The thrid edition of Mary MacKinnon's classic book tells you exactly how to run a high-quality, effective diabetes service within your practice. This practical handbook gives you all the essential information you need to set up and organise healthcare for people with diabetes in the primary care setting.It allocates tasks to each member of the primary care team, including clear guidelines for sharing responsibility with the hospital-based services.It also provides information on diabetes management,covers all you need to meet DoH requirements for chronic disease management programmes, includes education checklists, sample letters for patient recall and model posters for the surgery, recommends a practical working structure for sharing patient care, and gives ground rules for auditing the service.
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Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Editions-Typ
Illustrationen
illustrations, tables, glossary, index
Maße
Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 155 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-872362-74-8 (9781872362748)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
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Vorwort
Chairman, British Diabetic Association
Chairman, Primary Care Diabetes UK
Part I Diabetes - an overview: responsibilities of those involved in the provision of diabetes care; educational needs of the team; diabetes mellitus in the UK. Part II Providing diabetes care: the diabetes service in general practice; the symptoms of diabetes mellitus; providing the service; the treatment of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus; drug and insulin therapy; control of blood glucose levels; eye care and screening; foot care and surveillance; aspects of culture relating to diabetes care; education for self-management; living with diabetes - information requirements; monitoring and audit of practice diabetes care. Part III About diabetes: diabetes mellitus - a history of the condition; insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus; non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus; other categories of diabetes (as defined by WHO); other causes of diabetes - secondary diabetes; complications of diabetes; conclusion. Appendices: Primary Care Diabetes UK, the British Diabetic Association; the rights of people with diabetes - "what care to expect"; St Vincent Declaration recommendations for the care of children; requirements of Health Authorities; BDA recommendations for the management of diabetes in primary care; resources for the provision of diabetes care; template for a locally produced patient-held record card.
