The researcher of the Aragonese Institute of Health Sciences (IACS) Enrique Bernal, has achieved, after several months of work, the European consensus to evaluate good practices in diabetes.
In this project, which he himself leads with his team, they have collaborated 28 socio-sanitary experts from 14 different countries (Austria, Germany Belgium, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, andUnited Kingdom).Finally, they have completed a total of nine criteria and 39 categories for the evaluation of diabetes practices.
The design of the practice, ethical considerations, evaluation, sustainability and scalability and patient empowerment are some of the nine criteria with which diabetes practices will be evaluated.These criteria, as well as their corresponding categories, are included in the knowledge platform of the European Joint Action Chrodis, which will be open to the public in January 2017.
The Government of Spain, through the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality and the Carlos III Institute, coordinates the project since 2014.
The Aragonese Institute of Health Sciences assumed the leadership of the working group in which this project is framed.The ultimate goal is to recognize the best practices, interventions or policies on diabetes;and eventually facilitate its transfer to other European health contexts.