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Spotlight on AQ
Focus the consultation to find the unique health needs
of each patient.
Separately, psychologist Dr Rose Stewart has
commented that is was "Good to see The Lancet
thinking about diabetes distress and the huge gaps
in research on this important area. Unfortunately
psychological interventions for people with diabetes
are routinely under-researched due to lack of time
for clinicians working in the area and lack of research
funding. This leads to a vicious cycle of poor quality
research, lack of recognition in guidelines, and fewer
posts. Time for things to change!
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There is a growing wealth
of research to say that the
psychological and social
landscape of a patient's
life is the key to better health
outcomes. A doctor needs to discern
the unique health needs of each
patient to create a map to the right
kind of support, notes an article in
StartUp Health.
For a person living with Type 1
diabetes, health outcomes for
diabetes patients have not shifted in
the last 20 years, possibly because
when a patient comes in to talk to
their provider about their diabetes,
the only thing discussed is their
glycaemic numbers. There is no
time to figure out how to achieve
behavioural changes or what support
a patient needs to access and
understand new diabetes technology
or how family dynamics might hinder
compliance to recommendations.
There is no time for a doctor to fullfill
their mission to improve the health
of their patients.
To address this, Katharine
Barnard, PhD, has designed - and
clinically validated - Spotlight-AQ, a
new way for patients to communicate
their needs to physicians. The result
is an assessment tool that helps
patients feel heard and doctors feel
empowered to care.
Spotlight-AQ is a pre-clinical
assessment platform that identifies
what a patient and healthcare
provider need to focus on for
better management of chronic
diseases such as diabetes. It helps
doctors provide the right care to
their patients through immediately
available psychosocial resources
Dr Rose Stewart.
mapped to the unique needs of
each patient - precision medicine
- and helps them provide it within
the current constraints of medical
practice, reducing the burden of care
for providers while improving patient
results. "Our goal," Barnard explains,
"is to focus the consultation so that
healthcare providers can deliver the
care that needs to be delivered."
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