The Health Area of Cartagena (Murcia) is developing an advanced diabetes center that involves the implementation of a line of continuity of diabetic patient care in which fifty multidisciplinary professionals are working on both primary and specialized care professionals.It is about improving the control of type II diabetics looking for a pleiotropic effect that is not limited to the control of the glycemic index.
The initiative, a pioneer in the Murcian Health Service (SMS), heads a regional project that aims to strengthen care continuity in pathologies that generate a large number of derivations from health centers to hospitals, sometimes unnecessary.
According to José Sedes, area manager, “the continuity line in diabetes has already described the protocols and circuits to be followed by each professional and process, giving homogeneity to interventions and care times, and above all facilitating coordination and communication between thePrimary and specialized professionals ”.In their design, family doctors, internists, endocrinologists, ophthalmologists, surgeons, nurses and health educators, among other specialists, have worked.
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SEDES has explained that the Center for Excellence will continue working to improve care coordination, review the registration systems in force and evaluate results, while establishing strategies to favor adherence to treatment and maintain diabetological education activities.
The Rosell Hospital will be the headquarters of this Advanced Center in Diabetes, which will pay comprehensive care to more than 22,300 patients already diagnosed, of which only 955 are patients with DM type I insulin -dependent who usually require specialized care.
The Cartagena Health Area, which encompasses the Santa Lucía/ Santa María del Rosell and seventeen health centers, is developing work documents so that pathologies with a predictable medical course between primary and hospitable centers have a more welfare methodologyefficient.The eight selected are, in addition to the DM T2, benign prostate hyperplasia, thyroid dysfunction, childhood asthma, heart failure, painful shoulder, lumbar pain and gonalgia.