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Pediatric Diabetes Program - Phase II

From: WakeMed

Contact: Mark Piehl, MD, WakeMed Faculty Physicians
Pediatric Critical Care and Inpatient Pediatrics

Purpose:
  • Enhance interventions for children with pre-diabetes and diabetes with direct physician care services.
  • Expand the Pediatric Diabetes Program (PDP) education/exercise program for at-risk children.
  • Develop quality research data to measure impact and support advocacy.
How:
  1. Provide direct physician medical care from PDP staff physician.
  2. Use a full time Registered Nurse to support PDP physician and work with local partners to develop obesity programming.
  3. Underwrite expenses for expanded exercise intervention program to reach younger children through additional community sites.
  4. Conduct ongoing program evaluation and research activity in collaboration with area researchers in the UNC system.
Outcomes:
  1. 28 to 30 patients per week seen in clinic.
  2. Expansion of Energize program for 6 to 10 year olds and continued growth for 10 to 18 year olds.
  3. 500 referrals to PDP program annually - 150 enrollments into Energize.
  4. Conference to present lessons learned from program.
  5. Expansion of database with medical measurements and evaluations of program enrollees.
Cost/Term: $614,822 over three years. February 2006-January 2009
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