The Swedish National Survey of the Quality and Organization of Diabetes Care in Primary Healthcare—Swed-QOP
2010 (English)In: Primary Care Diabetes, ISSN 1751-9918, E-ISSN 1878-0210, Vol. 4, no 2, p. 91-97Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
AIM:
To describe the quality and organization of diabetes care in primary healthcare in Sweden regarding resources and ways of working.
METHOD:
A questionnaire was used to collect data from all 921 primary healthcare centres (PHCCs) in Sweden. Of these, 74.3% (n=684) responded to the questionnaire covering list size of the PHCCs, number of diabetic patients, personnel resources and ways of working.
RESULTS:
The median list size reported from the PHCCs was 9,000 patients, 294 of whom were diabetic patients. The majority (72%) of PHCCs had diabetes-responsible general practitioners (GPs) and almost all (97%) had diabetes specialist nurses (DSNs) with some degree of postgraduate education in diabetes. The PHCCs reported that they used regional/local diabetes guidelines (93%), were engaged in call-recall diabetic reviews by GP(s) (66%) and DSN(s) (89%), checked that patients had participated in the reviews by GP(s) (69%) and DSN(s) (78%), arranged group education programmes (23%) and reported data to a National Diabetes Register (82%).
CONCLUSIONS:
The presence of diabetes-responsible GP(s) and DSN(s) who use guidelines may contribute to good and equal quality of care. It is, however, necessary to improve the call-recall system and there is an urgent need for all diabetic patients to receive patient education.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2010. Vol. 4, no 2, p. 91-97
Keywords [en]
Primary healthcare, Organization, Diabetes care, National survey
National Category
Endocrinology and Diabetes
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-153369DOI: 10.1016/j.pcd.2010.03.002ISI: 000208416800006PubMedID: 20434973OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-153369DiVA, id: diva2:416556
2011-05-122011-05-122017-12-11Bibliographically approved