Recently,
I had the opportunity to work with a small drug chain to
provide “Diabetes Days” at a local pharmacy.
The program was sponsored by ThereaSense who, provided the
instant “Quality of Life” tests for each of
the patients who signed up in advance and made an appointment
on 2 different Saturday’s.
After
the test was given, each patient spent a half hour going
over their results and how they could improve it.
Out
of the 40 patients, only 4 knew what the Quality of Life
test was or knew their previous result from their doctors.
I had
to explain to the patients that the “Quality of Life”
test was an average of their blood sugars over the last
90 days, otherwise called an A1c test. I told them that
according to studies, that number represented their risk
for complications from diabetes. The lower the number meant
that they would have a better quality of life, as they got
older.
I explained
to them that there were a number of things they could do
to improve their quality of life result. The major things
they could do, was to start a walking program and to begin
to read food labels for the number of carbohydrates they
were consuming.
Every
patient was able to understand the importance of knowing
their quality of life number and committed to working on
improving their “Quality of Life” number.
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