Quality Standards for Diabetes Care Toolkit

Resources

The Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI) has produced a glycaemic control algorithm which can be found here: www.guideline.gov/algorithm/5391/NGC-5391_2.pdf.
New Zealand Primary Care Handbook 2012 www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/publications/nz-primary-care-handbook-2012.pdf

References

Best Practice Advocacy Centre New Zealand. 2013. Improving glycaemic control in people with type 2 diabetes: Expanding the primary care toolbox. Best Practice Journal 53: 6–15. Retrieved from www.bpac.org.nz/BPJ/2013/June/docs/BPJ53pages6-15.pdf.

Best Practice Advocacy Centre New Zealand. 2014. Getting to know patients with type 2 diabetes and poor glycaemic control: One size does not fit all. Best Practice Journal 58: 40–8. Retrieved from www.bpac.org.nz/BPJ/2014/February/docs/BPJ58-diabetes.pdf.

Coppell K, Kataoka M, Williams SM, et al. 2010. Nutritional intervention in patients with type 2 diabetes who are hyperglycaemic despite optimised drug treatment—Lifestyle Over and Above Drugs in Diabetes (LOADD) study: Randomised controlled trial. British Medical Journal 341: c3337. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.c3337.

Health Workforce New Zealand. 2011. Diabetes Workforce Service Review. Report of the Diabetes Care Workforce Service Review. Retrieved from www.health.govt.nz/our-work/health-workforce/workforce-service-forecasts/diabetes-workforce-service-forecast.

Ministry of Health. 2011. Targeting diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Wellington: Ministry of Health. Retrieved from https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/publications/targeting-diabetes-cardiovascular-disease.pdf.

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.

Schmittdiel JA, Uratsu CS, Karter AJ, et al. 2008. Why don’t diabetes patients achieve recommended risk factor targets? Poor adherence versus lack of treatment intensification. Journal of General Internal Medicine 23(5): 588–94. doi: 10.1007/s11606-008-0554-8.