External Barriers to Diabetes Care: Addressing Personal and Health Systems Issues
- Janice C. Zgibor, RPh, PhD and
- Thomas J. Songer, PhD, MSc
Abstract
In Brief
Existing knowledge from the literature demonstrates that primary prevention of diabetes complications is possible. However, patient-, provider-, and health system-based barriers may prevent implementation of evidence-based practices. This article explores barriers to diabetes care that are external to the patient and that may require particular attention when attempting to translate primary prevention strategies into clinical care in the community.
Footnotes
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Janice C. Zgibor, RPh, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, and Thomas J. Songer, PhD, MSc, is an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, Penn.
- American Diabetes Association
