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Study of the quality of care at a diabetic clinic in Sri Lanka

A. Mulgirigama

Department of Medicine, East Surrey Hospital, Redhill, Surrey, England

U. Illangasekera

The Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka

The aim was to study the quality of care at a dia betic clinic of a large hospital in Sri Lanka; a sam ple of 200 patients was randomly selected. A ques tionnaire was designed to assess patient knowledge of diabetic management and service provision. Clinic attendance records were also used. Measures of outcome were taken to be (i) the patient's level of understanding of their condition, (ii) the avail ability of diagnostic tests, (iii) the provision of reg ular screening and (iv) the length of consultation time. The average attendance at each four-hour clinic was 174 patients. With three doctors avail able, average consultation time was four minutes per patient. Procedures undertaken included mea suring blood glucose levels, testing for proteinuria and screening for hyperlipidaemia, hypertension and eye disease. The average score for knowledge regarding management and complications, obtained from analysis of the questionnaire, was 5.3 out of a maximum of 9.0 points. The study showed that the quality of care of diabetic patients did not meet the standards that should be expect ed. Two of the principal problems were lack of good organisation and poor planning of resource utilisation. An increase in funding would, of course, assist in implementing the improvements suggested.

Key Words: Audit • diabetes mellitus (DM) • diabetic care • implementing improvement • Sri Lanka

The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, Vol. 120, No. 3, 164-169 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/146642400012000305
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