Recently added articles from Diabetes and Primary Care:
Is QOF politicising diabetes care?(quality and outcomes framework)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is changing again. Some of these modifications came into effect on 1 April 2009, and others are subject to negotiations between the General Practice Committee (GPC), the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) and the Department of Health (DH) in England. ...
Guiding the use of newer agents for blood glucose control.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has just published guidelines covering newer agents for blood glucose control in adults with type 2 diabetes (NICE, 2009a), and as such is a partial update of NICE's clinical guideline 66 for type 2 diabetes (National Collaborating ...
Intensive glucose-lowering and cardiovascular disease.(Clinical report)
May 01, 2009; ... The ability of intensive glycaemic control to reduce the development of microvascular disease is already well established. Following the publication of the landmark UKPDS (UK Prospective Diabetes Study Group, 1998a; b), it also appeared likely that intensive glycaemic control led to ...
Gastroparesis in people with diabetes.(Clinical report)
May 01, 2009; ... Gastrointestinal symptoms are common in people with diabetes (Spangeus et al, 2002). Symptoms can arise from the whole of the gastrointestinal tract and disordered gut motility can have a profound effect on quality of life. The stomach seems to be particularly commonly affected in people ...
New therapies guidelines: NICE versus ADA/EASD.
May 01, 2009; ... The rapid update of the glycaemic control section of the NICE clinical guideline (CG) 66 was published on 27 May 2009 as NICE CG87 (NICK, 2009). The new recommendations cover dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors (sitagliptin, vildagliptin), thiazolidinediones (TZDs; pioglitazone, ...