Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Transitioning of children with chronic illnesses into adult services is a major challenge. The diabetes transition process in our unit was being redesigned and this audit was performed to provide a historical benchmark relating to the previous setup. During the audit period, young people had a joint appointment in the paediatric service with an adult nurse specialist and then were referred by letter to the adult diabetes team.Aim: We collecte...

Introduction: A diagnosis of type 1 diabetes makes a huge impact on the child and family. We believe intensive training in the first-year after diagnosis is crucial in laying a solid foundation to the lifelong management of this chronic condition. To provide this intensive support and drive reduction in HbA1c we started a quality improvement project focussing on the first year of care. Previously all patients were admitted following diagnosis of diabetes for s...

Introduction: The BSPED UK thyrotoxicosis study has been running for 10 years. The primary objective is to assess biochemical control on block and replace (BR) and dose titration (DT) regimens. The final patient was recruited towards the end of 2011 and study will finish in 2015. We would like to describe the baseline characteristics of study patients and the initial response to anti-thyroid drug therapy (ATD).Methods: We focused on patient age, sex, BMI...