The use of patient reported outcomes combined with clinical endpoints to improve diabetes care outcomes

Follow-up data from 1.400 people with diabetes from 32 diabetes clinics in regional quality monitoring and improvement initiative. Collaboration with Italian institutions, research organisations and authorities.

The assessment of self-rated health, well-being, diabetes distress, empowerment, health care climate, access to people-centred chronic illness care, treatment satisfaction, treatment effectiveness, treatment side effects, barriers to treatment adherence and treatment satisfaction is feasible in clinical practice, results can be fed back to clinicians in a meaningful way, and overall process can elicit effective clinical action plans for care improvement that is associated with real benefits for people with diabetes.