What is it about?
We followed a group of health clinics where the healthcare personnel were going to receive training on how to improve diabetes and other chronic disease care. Specifically, we were interested in how the knowledge that the healthcare personnel gained turned into better care for their patients. We followed this knowledge down a "chain" of events that we hoped would eventually turn into better health for patients.
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Why is it important?
This is the first paper (to our knowledge) that shows the "chain" between healthcare personnel training and patient health. Many other research studies treat this education as a "black box", meaning that they provide healthcare education and then hope, as if by magic, that this education will yield better patient health.
Perspectives
We wrote this article after years of collaboration with the co-authors on the CASALUD Model, and it was really great to see the "big picture" of all our research come together in one concise snapshot.
MSc Elena Rose Atkinson
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This page is a summary of: Online continuing medical education as a key link for successful noncommunicable disease self-management: the CASALUD™ Model, Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity, October 2017, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/dmso.s137891.
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