Key messages
- Quality improvement programmes can improve diabetes care, especially when multiple strategies are used in combination.
- Strategies used in these programmes that lead to the largest improvements in key outcomes in people with diabetes are: case management, team changes, patient education and promotion of self-management.
Why is improving diabetes care important?
Diabetes, a disorder of how sugar is managed by the body, can lead to complications such as heart disease and blindness. If people with diabetes get the best possible treatment, their risk for these and other diabetes-related complications will be lowered. Unfortunately, many people with diabetes do not get the best possible treatment. Read more here