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10939152

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-9-20
pubmed:abstractText
Today, effective therapies for patients with diabetes mellitus. However, these therapeutic strategies are often not or incorrectly applied. Following these discrepancies for health care providers, it is mandatory to document the efficacy of diabetes treatment. However, it is hard to prove the outcome of diabetes care because of unsuitable documentation, missing parameters and different definitions of quality indicators. The computer programme DIQUAL was developed to improve the diabetes management on the diabetes ward, the diabetes out-patient department and for the documentation of outcome quality. DIQUAL is a patient database and offers structured data collecting and administration, text processing, referring letters, application and list functions, internal and external quality control, as well as cohort or cross-section analysis, data export function for nation wide data collection, system internal plausibility check and extension modules for scientific studies. On the basis of DIQUAL, the first nation wide comparison of outcome quality in the routine treatment of type 1 diabetes was possible. In 1998, we analysed the original data of 1789 patients from 32 district and university hospitals on the basis of the therapeutic goals. HbA1C decreased 1.8% and the incidence of severe hypoglycaemia was lowered to the half. There was a substantial improvement of processes in the health care institutions and the quality of information transmission to the general practitioners. This system of measurement and improvement of quality is also suitable for other areas in health care and medicine.
pubmed:language
ger
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1431-7621
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
94
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
397-405
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-3
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
[Quality management in diabetology by the PC software program DIQUAL].
pubmed:affiliation
Klinik für Innere Medizin II, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. sabine.koehler@med.uni-jena.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract