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Workshop Report (36 pp)
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Presentations (PowerPoint)

Introduction:Quality of Diabetes Care— Promoting Better Health for People Affected by Diabetes through Public and Private Partnerships
(A. Barceló) (252 KB)

Quality of Care of Diabetes in Jamaica (1995) (R. Wilks) (191 KB)

Institutional Response to Diabetes, Hypertension and Their Complications: An Evaluation of Quality of Care (A. Barceló) (456 KB)

Review of Variables for Evaluation of Quality of Diabetes Care (G. Xuereb) (303 KB)

Quality of Diabetes Care—Qualidiab: A DOTA Initiative for Latin America and the Caribbean (J.J. Gagliardino) (463 KB)

The DOTA Workshop on Quality of Diabetes Care

DOTA: Together in Diabetes

(Ocho Rios, Jamaica,
11–12 March 2002)

Diabetes care and education are among the most important aspects in the fight against diabetes. Improvement in diabetes control is linked to better quality of life and survival. One of the most important challenges for public health in the field of diabetes is to monitor quality of care with the aim of introducing measures to assure better outcomes. The available information suggests that diabetes care in Latin America and the Caribbean is suboptimal.

Diabcare, a system for measuring quality of care in diabetes, was created by the Saint Vincent Declaration. Inspired by the Diabcare project of Europe, DOTA supported the implementation of Qualidiab in six Latin American countries starting in 1999. The latest analysis of Qualidiab included data from 13,513 patients from centers in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay and Venezuela. The aims of the study were to define characteristics of people with diabetes attending participating clinics and to establish a preliminary diagnosis of the provided care. Main results indicated that poor metabolic control and insufficient insulin administration are common in Latin America. Results of Qualidiab show that quality of care for people with diabetes needs to be improved.

The first DOTA Workshop on Quality of Diabetes Care was held on 11–12 March 2002 in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, with the participation of Barbados, Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and St. Lucia. Participants agreed to implement a diabetes-care survey in health centers, using the data-collection questionnaire discussed during the meeting.