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Quality of type 2 diabetes management in the states of the Co-operation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf: a systematic review.
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- Development and Pilot Testing of a Diabetes Foot Care and Complications Questionnaire for Adults with Diabetes in Oman: The Diabetic Foot Disease and Foot Care Questionnaire.Oman medical journal · 2020Article
- Comparison of awareness of diabetes mellitus type II with treatment's outcome in term of direct cost in a hospital in Saudi Arabia.World journal of diabetes · 2019Article
- Diabetes in the Middle East: Government Health Care Policies and Strategies that Address the Growing Diabetes Prevalence in the Middle East.Current diabetes reports · 2019Review
- Are the resources adoptive for conducting team-based diabetes management clinics? An explorative study at primary health care centers in Muscat, Oman.Primary health care research & development · 2019Article
- Diabetic Foot Disease Research in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: A bibliometric analysis.Sultan Qaboos University medical journal · 2018Article
- A qualitative study exploring patients' experiences regarding insulin pump use.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2018Article
- Diabetes Is Devastating, and Insulin Is a Death Sentence: Provider Perspectives of Diabetes Self-Management in Arab-American Patients.Clinical diabetes : a publication of the American Diabetes Association · 2017Article
- Quality of Type II Diabetes Care in Primary Health Care Centers in Kuwait: Employment of a Diabetes Quality Indicator Set (DQIS).PloS one · 2015Article
- Quality of Care for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Dubai: A HEDIS-Like Assessment.International journal of endocrinology · 2015Article
- Effectiveness and tolerability of second-line treatment with vildagliptin versus other oral drugs for type 2 diabetes in a real-world setting in the Middle East: results from the EDGE study.Vascular health and risk management · 2015Observational
- The curse of wealth - Middle Eastern countries need to address the rapidly rising burden of diabetes.International journal of health policy and management · 2014Article
- Quality of diabetes care in primary health centres in north Al-batinah of oman.The open cardiovascular medicine journal · 2014Article
- Ethnic- and sex-specific associations between plasma fatty acids and markers of insulin resistance in healthy young adults.Nutrition & metabolism · 2013Article
- Factors affecting the motivation of healthcare professionals providing care to Emiratis with type 2 diabetes.JRSM short reports · 2013Article
- Type 2 diabetes care for patients in a tertiary care setting in UAE: a retrospective cohort study.JRSM short reports · 2012Article
- Clinical safety of insulin detemir in patients with Type 2 diabetes in the Gulf countries: The multicenter, noninterventional, open-label LevSafe study.Indian journal of endocrinology and metabolismArticle
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Abstract
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a growing, worldwide public health concern. Recent growth has been particularly dramatic in the states of The Co-operation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC), and these and other developing economies are at particular risk. We aimed to systematically review the quality of control of type 2 diabetes in the GCC, and the nature and efficacy of interventions. We identified 27 published studies for review. Studies were identified by systematic database searches. Medline and Embase were searched separately (via Dialog and Ovid, respectively; 1950 to July 2010 (Medline), and 1947 to July 2010 (Embase)) on 15/07/2009. The search was updated on 08/07/2010. Terms such as diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent, hyperglycemia, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and Gulf States were used. Our search also included scanning reference lists, contacting experts and hand-searching key journals. Studies were judged against pre-determined inclusion/exclusion criteria, and where suitable for inclusion, data extraction/quality assessment was achieved using a specifically-designed tool. All studies wherein glycaemic-, blood pressure- and/or lipid- control were investigated (clinical and/or process outcomes) were eligible for inclusion. No limitations on publication type, publication status, study design or language of publication were imposed. We found the extent of control to be sub-optimal and relatively poor. Assessment of the efficacy of interventions was difficult due to lack of data, but suggestive that more widespread and controlled trial of secondary prevention strategies may have beneficial outcomes. We found no record of audited implementation of primary preventative strategies and anticipate that controlled trial of such strategies would also be useful.
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