Children with diabetes friendly services: A blueprint

Abstract

Children with diabetes, despite their small numbers, form a population with needs different from adult subjects with diabetes. This emphasizes the need to establish child- friendly standards in services rendered to these children. The care providers for children with diabetes are quite heterogeneous and include generalists, paediatric subspecialist and endocrinologists and care is delivered in various circumstances. Various aspects of caring for children need to be taken into account when a system is created for children with diabetes. This includes but is not limited to physical infrastructure of the system, qualified medical personal with experience in handling children and quality systems to maintain cold chains for insulin and laboratory reporting. The system should be able to reach out to other stake holders that include the community and family of children with diabetes. The system should be subjected to self audit, and performance on various key indicators should be assessed.

Family centered care - pediatric diabetes - patient centered care - type 1 diabetes

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