-Thinking about diabetes health education in American hospitals.
On October 201165438 10, he was invited to attend the annual meeting of American Rheumatology Association (ACR). After the meeting, he was invited to visit three hospitals in Ohio. I was deeply impressed by the diabetes health education in American hospitals.
The hospital I visited was United Hospital in Dayton, Ohio.
Community hospitals are equivalent to the central hospitals in coastal towns in Fujian. But the diabetes health education room in this hospital makes me linger. Full-time staff tailor-made for patients one by one, and face-to-face lectures are the main form of education, including common knowledge of diabetes, so that patients can have a certain understanding of the incidence, clinical manifestations, classification, complications, treatment, drug use and other knowledge of diabetes. Let the patients go to the ophthalmology department on the day of diagnosis of diabetes, and screen for diabetic eye diseases.
It involves some operation procedures, such as insulin injection and the use of blood sugar detector, until the patient is proficient. Compile the data into a book, make a wall chart, and distribute it to patients free of charge, so that they can practice against the contents of the booklet after going home, in order to achieve better results.
When asked how to evaluate the effect of diabetes education, the full-time staff told me that it is often difficult to make a quantitative evaluation because of the differences of patients' academic qualifications, culture and race. But we have a clear conscience if we try our best.