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- Relationship to Diabetes
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Follow-up monitoring in women with gestational diabetes should be added to the QOF to boost 'markedly' poor screening rates, according to researchers.
Their study found that just one in five women with gestational diabetes receive checks for diabetes after delivery as advised by NICE.
Researchers said the institute's guidelines had not improved screening rates and a different approach was urgently needed amid rising cases of the disease.
Gestational diabetes affects 3.5% of pregnancies in England and Wales, and these patients are at much higher risk of subsequent diabetes.
NICE guidance published in 2008 advises fasting plasma glucose testing at six weeks postpartum to screen for diabetes, followed by annual testing.
http://www.gponline.com/News/articl...ional-diabetes-screening-qof-say-researchers/
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Their study found that just one in five women with gestational diabetes receive checks for diabetes after delivery as advised by NICE.
Researchers said the institute's guidelines had not improved screening rates and a different approach was urgently needed amid rising cases of the disease.
Gestational diabetes affects 3.5% of pregnancies in England and Wales, and these patients are at much higher risk of subsequent diabetes.
NICE guidance published in 2008 advises fasting plasma glucose testing at six weeks postpartum to screen for diabetes, followed by annual testing.
http://www.gponline.com/News/articl...ional-diabetes-screening-qof-say-researchers/
(free registration)