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Good clinical practice guidelines for care home residents with diabetes: a revision document prepared by Task and Finish Group of Diabetes UK
- Author:
- DIABETES UK
- Publisher:
- Diabetes UK
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 120p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A revision of the 1999 Guidelines of Practice for Residents with Diabetes in Care Homes, this document aims to enhance diabetes care within residential care settings. Based on published evidence and interpretation by a multidisciplinary group of diabetes experts, it is designed as a national policy of good clinical practice for diabetes care in residential and nursing homes and as a framework for assessment of the quality of diabetes care within these settings. It summarises and reviews the evidence base, identifies barriers to providing effective diabetes care, and sets out key principles and features of good clinical practice for adult and older adult residents with diabetes within institutional settings, including the agreement of individual care plans for each resident with diabetes. It also outlines recommendations covering residents of care homes, care home institutions, and the district organisation of diabetes care.