In this population-based study, a number of recommended measures of quality diabetes care (e.g., monitoring of blood glucose and cholesterol concentrations and screening for foot, and eye disease) were positively associated with patient satisfaction. In this sample of African Americans with diabetes, reported satisfaction with care was generally excellent or good. The perception of not [...]
Among participants in the study: 13% were 18 to 44 years old, 50% were 45 to 64 years old, and 37% were older than 65 years; 65% were women; 42% were married or coupled; 61% had completed high school education or higher; 39% were employed; 33% had annual household incomes <$10,000 and 65% had incomes [...]
The methods used in Project DIRECT are described in detail elsewhere. Briefly, the survey was conducted in 1997, among civilian, non institutionalized adults, aged >18 years, by using a multistage, population-based probability sample from census files in predominantly African-American neighborhoods in Raleigh and Greensboro, NC. All data were collected at baseline, before interventions were commenced, [...]
Patient satisfaction is increasingly recognized as an important aspect of the quality of medical care. It is accepted that patient satisfaction is determined by many factors of care delivery, including communication among the patient, the provider, and the health care system; accessibility; availability; and convenience. For these reasons, patient satisfaction has been recently proposed as [...]
Multiple risk factors are associated with cardiovascular disease in subjects with diabetes, including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity, and microalbuminuria, which are the key components of MS. They have a risk of death from cardiovascular causes that is two- to six times that among persons without diabetes. Among white Americans, the age-adjusted prevalence of coronary heart disease [...]
A total of 218 subjects with type-2 diabetes were studied. The mean age of all the patients was 52 ± 5.8 years (range 36-62 years), consisting of 128 (58.7%) males and 90 (41.3%) females. The mean duration of disease was 8.5 ±7.1 years. The mean fasting blood glucose and two-hour postprandial blood glucose levels in [...]
A total of 218 subsamples of consecutive patients with type-2 diabetes seen between September 1999 and August 2001, in both the medical outpatient department and the medical wards of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Ogun State, Nigeria were studied.
