ea0028p230 | Obesity, diabetes, metabolism and cardiovascular | SFEBES2012
Hussain Arshad
, Durkan Maeve
, Alarrayed Hamed
, Asfour Jude
In Ireland, we are devolving management of diabetes to primary care. Recent studies highlight the importance of early glycemic (metabolic memory) & multifactorial control. Our hospitalnewpatient waiting lists average 18 months and for best practice, this is time lost. We established a pilot program for a rapid assessment to reduce waiting times and ensure specialist input. This is a retrospective review of our 50 patients thus far. 30% w...