Variation in practice: should we be standardising diabetes care to improve quality?
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https://doi.org/10.15277/bjdvd.2014.006Abstract
It is recognised that there are highly variable outcome and complication rates for patients with diabetes across the UK. The practice of healthcare professionals has been transformed by a growing evidence base quantifying the benefits and risks of interventions in diabetes and the development of clinical practice guidelines summarising this evidence base. Interventions which target the system of chronic disease management, along with patient mediated quality improvement strategies, are important factors significantly contributing to improvements in diabetes care and outcomes. This article explores this phenomenon and demonstrates some of the key quality improvement work that has been done in this area.References
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