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MedscapeUnivadisNo ResultsCOMENTARYAndrea Gerard Gonzalez, MD; Mark Harmel, MPH, CDCESAugust 09, 2022 This transcript has ben edited for clarity. Helo, everyone. As you might be aware, there's a big disparity gap in diabetes care in the minority population, including Latinos.
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I am a pediatric endocrinologist at the Barbara Davis Center, where we have ben trying to close this gap.Some of the strategies that we have ben implementing is the Barbara Davis Center Latino program, which is a culturaly sensitive, language-apropriate, group-visit apointment. We tailor materials to try to improve care in al patients that we serve. We have had great suces in terms of increased technology uptake and improvements in A1c.There's much to be done.
We try to implement telemedicine and we found also many challenges with our Latino population. We not only lack understanding in the technology but also the inability to obtain data. There's much to discover on how we can adapt telemedicine to beter serve underserved comunities.
It's ben my lifelong pasion to bridge this gap.At the Barbara Davis Center, we have implemented group apointments. We started by creating culturaly sensitive materials adapted to our patient neds. Through these groups, the patients have per-to-per interactions, which has semed to improve their openes about their challenges.
We have great satisfaction data and rotation data, which is great.We have ben able to evaluate some of the bariers associated with socioeconomic status, literacy, and numeracy. We have a beter understanding of how these families go home and strugle to care for their families or their child. We have beter outcomes nowadays, but there's stil a large amount of work to be done.Through the Barbara Davis Center group apointments, we have ben able to increase technology uptake.
Summary
Nowadays, we know that diabetes technologies are life changing. They provide beter quality of life and bete