Quality Standards for Diabetes Care Toolkit

Consumers

Diabetes and Kidney disease everybody.co.nz www.everybody.co.nz/page-a53665f1-9d59-43d4-9a94-89a27585ee73.aspx
Diabetes and your kidneys screening for early kidney disease is done on your urine, and is called microalbuminuria. You should have this test at least annually.

www.diabetes.org.nz/about_diabetes/complications_of_diabetes/kidneysNational Kidney Disease Education Program (USA). Monitoring Your Kidney Health. Retrieved from: http://nkdep.nih.gov/living/monitor-kidney-health.shtml

Health Mentor Online

Online learning resource for people with diabetes: Healthmentoronline.com

References

Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry 2013. Retrieved from: www.anzdata.org.au/v1/annual_reports_download.html.

Best Practice Advocacy Centre New Zealand. 2009. Mate takihi ukiuki: Making a difference in chronic kidney disease. Best Practice Journal 22(July), 24–37.

Health Workforce New Zealand. 2011. Diabetes Workforce Service Review. Report of the Diabetes Care Workforce Service Review. Retrieved from www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/pages/diabetes-workforce-service-review.pdf.

Houtu C. 2013. Optimising blood pressure control in Māori and Pacific patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and established diabetic nephropathy in New Zealand. Doctoral Thesis. Retrieved from https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/20586.

Kidney Health New Zealand. 2013. Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD): Management in general practice – summary guide. Retrieved from www.kidneys.co.nz/resources/file/ckd_management_in_general_practice._2014_version.pdf.

Kidney International. 2013. KDIGO 2012: Clinical practice guidline for the evaluation and management of chronic kidney disease. Retrieved from www.kdigo.org/clinical_practice_guidelines/pdf/CKD/KDIGO_2012_CKD_GL.pdf.

National Renal Advisory Board. 2006. Scoping paper: New Zealand’s renal services: Towards a national strategic plan. Wellington: Ministry of Health.

New Zealand Guidelines Group. 2012. New Zealand Primary Care Handbook 2012 (3rd edition). Wellington: Ministry of Health. Retrieved from www.health.govt.nz/publication/new-zealand-primary-care-handbook-2012.pdf.

Walker R, Marshall MR, Polaschek N. 2013. Improving self-management in chronic kidney disease: a pilot study. Renal Society of Australasia Journal 9(3): 116–25.