Table 2.
Postgraduate trainee doctors’ current management of diabetes
| Questions | Always | Almost always | Often | Not very often | Rarely | Never |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| If a patient under your care has diabetes how often would you take the initiative to improve diabetes control? | 174 (8) | 703 (33) | 766 (36) | 381 (18) | 103 (5) | 22 (1) |
| When faced with a patient with poor blood glucose control: | ||||||
| How often do you educate the patients on lifestyle factors? | 150 (7) | 508 (24) | 590 (27) | 562 (26) | 281 (13) | 58 (3) |
| On oral therapy how often do you change the dose/timing of oral diabetes therapy? | 44 (2) | 241 (11) | 495 (23) | 629 (29) | 443 (21) | 297 (14) |
| On insulin how often do you change the dose/ timing/type of insulin? | 120 (6) | 488 (23) | 637 (30) | 424 (20) | 313 (15) | 167 (8) |
| When managing patients with specific problems related to their diabetes do you take the initiative to involve diabetes specialists (doctors/nurses)? | 422 (20) | 996 (46) | 588 (27) | 113 (5) | 25 (1) | 5 (0) |
| Do you follow-up on blood glucose control once patients have been seen by the diabetes specialists? | 219 (10) | 663 (31) | 621 (29) | 371 (17) | 167 (8) | 108 (5) |
| When discharging patients with diabetes do you make arrangements for ongoing monitoring of control? | 231 (11) | 537 (25) | 588 (27) | 450 (21) | 239 (11) | 104 (5) |
Data are expressed as n (%).