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Towards a national diabetes register for Ireland: theory, practice and policy

Author/Researcher: Professor Colin Bradley

Description

We will conduct a review of the biomedical literature on diabetes registers and gather information on international best practice. We will survey the existing provision of diabetes care in primary and secondary care and the engagement of providers with audit or other forms of quality assurance. We will carry out some more in depth exploration, using a variety of qualitative methods, of barriers and facilitators of the development of diabetes registers and audit. We will proceed to establish three local diabetes registers in areas where there are existing initiatives in primary care of diabetes including audit but with contrasting models of diabetes care delivery. In each of these areas we will work with existing groups to establish a preliminary diabetes register and carry out a reasonably comprehensive audit. On foot of this, we will work with these three groups towards establishing a more robust register of diabetes covering the relevant local areas using electronic data capture. This register will use operating procedures that will have been standardised and agreed by all three groups and act as a template for a national register. A further more extensive audit will be conducted using the methods developed and improved from the first audit. Finally, we will use the data form these studies and the experience gained from them to offer a fully costed plan and roadmap towards the development of a national diabetes register

Status Current
Publisher Department of General Practice, UCC, NUIG, HSE, ICGP
Description We will conduct a review of the biomedical literature on diabetes registers and gather information on international best practice. We will survey the existing provision of diabetes care in primary and secondary care and the engagement of providers with audit or other forms of quality assurance. We will carry out some more in depth exploration, using a variety of qualitative methods, of barriers and facilitators of the development of diabetes registers and audit. We will proceed to establish three local diabetes registers in areas where there are existing initiatives in primary care of diabetes including audit but with contrasting models of diabetes care delivery. In each of these areas we will work with existing groups to establish a preliminary diabetes register and carry out a reasonably comprehensive audit. On foot of this, we will work with these three groups towards establishing a more robust register of diabetes covering the relevant local areas using electronic data capture. This register will use operating procedures that will have been standardised and agreed by all three groups and act as a template for a national register. A further more extensive audit will be conducted using the methods developed and improved from the first audit. Finally, we will use the data form these studies and the experience gained from them to offer a fully costed plan and roadmap towards the development of a national diabetes register
Other Contributors(s) Professor Ivan Perry, Dr. Sean Dinneen, Dr. Velma Harkins
Publication Year 2007
Data Available to other researchers? No
Completion Date 30/09/2011
Email: library@icgp.ie, Tel: 01 6763705, Fax: 01 6765850