ArticleFrontiers in clinical diabetes and healthcare2021
Making Diabetes Care Fit-Are We Making Progress?
Article in Frontiers in clinical diabetes and healthcare, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Pooled it
- Shared decision-making in type 2 diabetes: a systematic review of patients' preferences and healthcare providers' perspectives.BMC health services research · 2025Pooled it
- Patient decision aid-supported shared decision making and short-term decision-making outcomes in type 2 diabetes: a prospective observational comparative study.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2026Observational
- Use of Fixed Ratio Combinations to Improve Glycemic Control in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes: Experts' Opinion from the Gulf Region.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2026Review
- The Chemistry of Gliflozins: Recent Advancements in SGLT-2 Inhibitors.Cardiovascular & hematological agents in medicinal chemistry · 2026Review
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- Burden of Treatment in Children and Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes Evaluated by Focus Groups.Pediatric diabetes · 2025Article
- Participatory Development of an Integrated, eHealth-Supported, Educational Care Pathway (Diabetes Box) for People With Type 2 Diabetes: Development and Usability Study.JMIR human factors · 2024Article
- Towards an integrated type 1 diabetes management in low-resource settings: barriers faced by patients and their caregivers in healthcare facilities in Ghana.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Patient-centered care model based on self-efficacy to improve self-care and quality of life of people with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A PLS-SEM approach.Belitung nursing journal · 2024Article
- Living with Type 1 Diabetes as Experienced by Adults with Prolonged Elevated HbA1c: A Qualitative Study.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2023Article
- Association of SGLT-2 Inhibitors With Treatment Satisfaction and Diabetes-Specific and General Health Status in Adults With Cardiovascular Disease and Type 2 Diabetes.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2023Observational
- Assessing collaborative efforts of making care fit for each patient: A systematic review.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2023Review
- Problem-based shared decision-making in diabetes care: a secondary analysis of video-recorded encounters.BMJ evidence-based medicine · 2023Article
- Reimagining care for young adults living with type 1 diabetes.Journal of diabetes investigation · 2022Review
- Expert Panel Guidance and Narrative Review of Treatment Simplification of Complex Insulin Regimens to Improve Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2022Review
- Key Factors Relevant for Healthcare Decisions of Patients with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes in Secondary Care According to Healthcare Professionals.Patient preference and adherence · 2022Article
- Piloting an Intervention to Improve Outcomes in Young Adults Living With Type 1 Diabetes: The Experience of the D1 Now Support Worker.Frontiers in clinical diabetes and healthcare · 2021Article
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Abstract
The care of patients with diabetes requires plans of care that make intellectual, practical, and emotional sense to patients. For these plans to fit well, patients and clinicians must work together to develop a common understanding of the patient's problematic human situation and co-create a plan of care that responds well to it. This process, which starts at the point of care, needs to continue at the point of life. There, patients work to fit the demands of their care plan along with the demands placed by their lives and loves. Thought in this way, diabetes care goes beyond the control of metabolic parameters and the achievement of glycemic control targets. Instead, it is a highly individualized endeavor that must arrive at a care plan that reflects the biology and biography of the patient, the best available research evidence, and the priorities and values of the patient and her community. It must also be feasible within the life of the patient, minimally disrupting those aspects of the patient life that are treasured and justify the pursuit of care in the first place. Patient-centered methods such as shared decision making and minimally disruptive medicine have joined technological advances, patient empowerment, self-management support, and expert patient communities to advance the fit of diabetes care both at the point of care and at the point of life.
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