- Title
- CWDM: A case-based diabetes management web system
- Creator
- Nguyen, Linh Hoang; Sun, Zhaohao; Stranieri, Andrew; Firmin, Sally
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/72401
- Identifier
- vital:6909
- Abstract
- Treatment refers to the therapy to treat a disease or a health issue. Treatment in this situation is similar to medical treatment which mainly uses medicines in an attempt to relieve the pain or even stop the disease. However, medicines themselves could not entirely cure the disease (in this case, diabetes), the patients will need more intervention which will be introduced in the next section. In most of documents for diabetic treatment, insulin therapy may be the main factor, however it would seem that diabetic patient needs more than just insulin. Therefore, TCM – traditional Chinese medicine – is recommended in the diabetic treatment as a lot of its remedies not only adjust insulin but also maintain good health for the patients. This section presents some of the TCM remedies to treat diabetes. As mentioned, diabetic patients are treated by lifestyle intervention and insulin therapy according to their diabetic status. The prevalence of diabetes and its complications leads to the requirement of treatment and care plan. Guidelines for T2D treatment indicated the following primary areas: lifestyle improvement which involves at least two and half hours of physical operations every week, dietary plan which decreases the fat intake, and weight management which requires weight loss approximately 7% of the baseline weight; cardiovascular risk factor reduction by managing blood pressure, cholesterol level, control smoking status, hypertension; and blood glucose management such as mono-therapy methods using oral medications to reduce A1c levels (Ripsin, Kang, & Urban, 2009). Self-monitoring of blood glucose levels for T2D treatment is also suggested. The self-monitoring of blood glucose method is recommended because it could enhance the patients’ self-consciousness of managing their diabetic status and require greater behaviours, responsibilities and efforts. Besides, this method is cost-effective in long term for diabetic complications treatment (Szymborska-Kajaneka, Psureka, Heseb, & Strojek, 2009). Another related study recommended that for T2D patients who are using insulin, self-monitoring of blood glucose should be carried out daily at least three times; and for patients without insulin usage the frequency of blood glucose self-monitoring should be adjusted individually (Varanauskiene, 2008). Both studies indicate that there have been controversies whether self-monitoring of blood glucose is useful for T2D patients without insulin treatment. We recommend traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as the major medicine for treating diabetes according to a report of natural Chinese medicines (Li, Zheng, Bukuru, & Kimpe, 2004) which indicates the results from many cases in various research and medical activities.
- Publisher
- ACS
- Relation
- 24th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, 4-6th December, 2013 p. 1-10
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Healthcare information system; Diabetes management; Lifecycle; CBR; Case-based reasoning
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