Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Clinical practice guidelines on diabetes mellitus (DM) was created by The Society of Endocrinology & Metabolism, Turkey (SEMT). The ADMIRE Project is designed to evaluate the effect of implementation activities to increase physicians’ awareness on guidelines.Methods: A total of 180 physicians from national representative diabetes clinics kept medical records of 885 T2DM patients for 6 months, without any interference to their routi...

Introduction: An update of health economics analysis of diabetes mellitus (DM) in Turkey was performed. The primary objective was to collect and calculate the healthcare resources utilized for the management of DM.Methods: Thirty-one out of 40 randomly chosen centers completed the study. Medical files were reviewed for the data recorded for at least two years prior to the study. Collected data included laboratory tests, treatments, inpatient/outpatient f...

Background: Guidelines for management of diabetes mellitus (DM) provide standardization of care and treatment. National clinical practice guidelines on DM have been developed in 2006 by The Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism of Turkey and reviewed annually.Methods: One hundred and eighty physicians evaluated previous 12 months’ medical records of their type 2 DM patients with special emphasis on whether the patients were followed consistently w...