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Achieving optimal diabetes management in outpatient clinics remains a challenge for clinicians dealing with complex issues while having limited time to spend with patients and families. Information technology and digital strategies can provide a high-quality service for children, young people and their families who require treatment, education and advice for the management of type 1 diabetes.1 ,2 Our audit found that the effective use of technology and digital strategies improved clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction in this population.
Within a dual-site integrated care organisation, an integrated paediatric electronic diabetes information management system that was web-based (Twinkle.Net3) and routine uploading of glucose meters and pumps (DIASEND system4) in …
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Contributors SMN, LF, LC and SC conceived the idea. All authors wrote the draft of the manuscript and approved the final draft.
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Competing interests None.
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Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.