Assessment of a Day Hospital Management Program for Children With Type 1 Diabetes.

Importance: A shift in the setting of care delivery for children with a new diagnosis of type 1 diabetes led to a reorganization of treatment.

Objective: To determine whether a new diagnosis of pediatric diabetes can be successfully managed in a day hospital model.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This quality improvement study used retrospectively collected data on pediatric patients with a new diagnosis of diabetes who completed an inpatient program for education and insulin titration prospectively compared with patients completing a diabetes day hospital program.

Improving depression screening for adolescents with type 1 diabetes.

Objective: Depression is common among adolescents, but rates increase significantly in the presence of chronic health conditions. Outpatient screening for depression is recommended but rarely formally conducted due to barriers of implementation.

Methods: To provide a model for depression screening of youth with chronic health conditions, a standard process using a self-administered electronic version of the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) was developed.

Comprehensive evidence-based assessment and prioritization of potential antidiabetic medicinal plants: a case study from canadian eastern james bay cree traditional medicine.

Canadian Aboriginals, like others globally, suffer from disproportionately high rates of diabetes. A comprehensive evidence-based approach was therefore developed to study potential antidiabetic medicinal plants stemming from Canadian Aboriginal Traditional Medicine to provide culturally adapted complementary and alternative treatment options. Key elements of pathophysiology of diabetes and of related contemporary drug therapy are presented to highlight relevant cellular and molecular targets for medicinal plants.