Computer
Planned Nutrition has been designed by a nationally respected
dietitian. Madelyn L. Wheeler, MS, RD, FADA, CDE, and Lawrence
A. Wheeler MD, PhD, FASCP, FCAP.
Ms Wheeler is a former Senior Vice President of the American
Diabetes Association, has held national offices in the American
Dietetics Association, served on an NIH Diabetes Consensus
Conference Panel, is a member of the committee which is revising
the Nutrition Position Statement of the American Diabetes
Association(1), and is currently Nutritional Coordinator at
the Indiana University School of Medicine Diabetes Research
and Training Center.
Dr. Wheeler is the principle software architect. He has extensive
experience in computer design and programming. While an Associate
Professor in the School of Medicine at Indiana University,
he was Director of Clinical Laboratory Information Systems.
The Program for health care professionals provides complete
support for patient assessment, menu planning for individuals,
development of integrated nutrition, exercise and medication
plans and menu recipe analysis.
Desktop
and palm programs make these nutritional tools available for
use wherever you are.
Study Protocols
Overall
Study Parameters
· Twenty-five medical professionals
· Minimum of ten patients per medical professional
who have been diagnosed as having diabetes (type 1 or type
2)
· One Professional CPN program per medical professional
· Study duration per medical professional will be two
weeks to initiate the study (program installation and medical
professionals instruction in its use), six weeks to process
study patients, one week to submit study data to DiabetesInControl
for delivery to NCC
Medical
professional Participation Criteria
· Currently providing patient care services to patients
who have diabetes
· Area with desktop computer (modern Windows PC with
sound system and printer) suitable for patient instruction
(provides adequate privacy with protection of patient health
care data)
Administrative
Issues
· DiabetesInControl will send contact information for
medical professional that wish to participate in the study
to NCC
· NCC will send CPN Professional programs to medical
professional
· NCC will provide technical support as needed over
its toll free telephone line and by e-mail
Study
Protocol
· Initial patient encounter
o Access patient knowledge of and attitudes about diabetes
using a computer-based validated instrument
o Patient goes through the Patient Interview process with
assistance from a clerical person if necessary
o Patient is weighed
o Medical professionals develops a diabetes treatment plan
with the patient, the plan and four weeks of menus are given
to the patient, medical professionals will decide on carb
counting versus exchange lists
o Patient will be asked to use the menus as a diabetes data
log (medications taken, changes to menus, exercise performed)
o Patient treatment plan and menus will be filed in a computer
folder
o Medical professionals will prepare and file a SOAP note
including the following data
§ time since diagnosis of diabetes
§ current status of diabetes control
§ diabetes type
· Second patient encounter (four weeks later)
o Repeat accessing patient knowledge of and attitudes about
diabetes using a computer-based validated instrument
o Patient will return diabetes data log
o Patient will perform a computer based evaluation of the
CPN program (general satisfaction, worthwhile doing, want
to continue using the program materials, problems encountered,
suggestions for improvements)
o Patient will be weighed
o Medical professionals will perform a computer based evaluation
of usefulness of the CPN program with the current patient
(was patient health status improved)
o Diabetes log will be mailed to NCC, the patient will be
only identified by their study number
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· Completion of study
o Medical professionals participating in the study will perform
a computer based evaluation of CPN program (general satisfaction,
worthwhile doing, want to continue using the program materials,
problems encountered, suggestions for improvements)
o The patient treatment plans, the results of the two patient
interviews and the medical professionals interviews will be
sent to NCC as an attachment to an e-mail
o Upon receipt of this material indicating that the study
was successfully completed, NCC will e-mail a code to the
medical professional which will allow the CPN program to be
used after the completion of the study
If
you have an interest in participating click
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