Diminuição de internação hospitalar por complicações agudas em pacientes diabeticos tipo 1 apos a implantação de um programa estruturado de atendimento e distribuição de fitas para automonitorização

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2001

RESUMO

In this retrospective study we tried to evaluate the introduction of a structured team and the distribution of reagent strips for blood and urine determinations in a group of children and adolescents with type 1 Diabetes. A total number of 358 patients were followed during the period of 1989-2000, from the outpatient clinic at the University of Campinas (Unicamp) Medical School Hospital - São Paulo - Brazil, and the purpose was to analyse the hospitalization rate for acute complications of diabetes: hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia and ketoacidosis. The results showed: 1 - A decrease in the hospitalization rate, after the beginning of the study, from 0.57 per patients/year to 0.31 in the first year and 0.37 in the second year, which dropped around 0.09 to 0.07 hospitalization per patient/year, after the distribution of reagent strips for blood glucose and urine glycosuria/ketonuria determinations. 2 - Despite the fact that after the beginning of the distribution of the strips there was a great decline in the hospitalization rate, no statistical difference was found between the dispensation of any of the types of strips nor their total number versus the hospitalization rate. We concluded that a structured group of doctors and nurses along with the distribution of reagents strips for blood glucose and urine glucose and ketones can help diminish the hospitalization rates for acute complication of diabetes in a type 1 population. Therefore it is our opinion that efforts should be made to implement this model, which is suitable even to medium size hospitals in the developing countries

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crianças - assistencia hospitalar hospital e comunidade diabetes mellitus

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