What is the best quality of diabetes care? The Global Diabetes Survey needs your participation

Abstract

Adequate quality of diabetes care and the best concept for the implementation of national diabetes plans remains controversial. In September 2011, the United Nations Summit for Non-Communicable Diseases agreed that national plans for prevention and control of diabetes must be developed, implemented, and monitored. The Global Diabetes Survey (GDS) is a standardised, annual, global questionnaire that will be used to assess responses of representatives from 19 diabetes-related stakeholder groups. It was designed with the goal of generating an annual report on the quality of national diabetes care and to compare findings from different regions and countries. The findings will be freely available and will be used to inform politicians and stakeholders, with the goal of improving the quality of diabetes care. We encourage the public to participate. If you are interested, please go to http://www.globaldiabetessurvey.com.

Keywords:

• Survey
• Type 2 diabetes
• Quality of care
• Diabetes mellitus

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Peter E. H. Schwarz

Prof Schwarz he has been certified as a specialist in Internal Medicine and has been the Professor for Prevention and Care of Diabetes at the Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus since 2008. He leads a number of European projects to translate the evidence in diabetes prevention into clinical and public health practice. Prof Schwarz coordinates the German Diabetes Prevention work group and is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Diabetes-Präventions-Forum (DPF) of the International Diabetes Association in the European Union. He has published many national and international papers.

The Global Diabetes Survey team is a team of medical specialists, health care researchers, psychologists, and IT specialists who feel dedicated to activities to improve the quality of diabetes care worldwide. This includes Doreen Ebermann, Antje Lindner, Gregor Gallein, Ulrike Rothe, Gabriele Müller, Jaqueline Schwarz, Istvan Tibor Nebel, Peter Schwarz, and currently 1889 registered stakeholder volunteers from 127 countries worldwide.