Endocrine Abstracts

Purpose: The aim of diabetes management is to prevent the micro/macrovascular complications. We have designed a quality improvement project to monitor how we are doing in term of glycaemic control and overall management of diabetes in our out-patient facility and how can we improve the outcome further.

Methods: Parameters checked (HbA1C, blood pressure, lipid profile, annual fundus examination, podiatry, urine for ACR). Retrospective study of 112 patients who attended the OPD in 2020 and then re-audited for the same number one year later.

Findings: The first cycle showed that our sampled patients’ HbA1c and blood pressure was not controlled, but these has improved further after implication of suggested changes, HbA1C control has improved by 25% in T1DM, 12% in T2DM, and the blood pressure control improved by 19%. Likely because of Covid-19 and cancellation of clinics, some of the parameters could not be improved and need further action plans.