Publications by authors named "Ritchie McAlpine"
Background: My Diabetes My Way (MDMW) is the National Health Service (NHS) Scotland website for people with diabetes and their carers. It consists of an interactive information website and an electronic personal health record (ePHR) available to the 291,981 people with diabetes in Scotland. We aimed to analyse the demographic characteristics of current registrants and system usage and activity during 2016.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To study the association between socioeconomic deprivation and prevalence of diabetic retinopathy (DR).
Design: Population-based, cross-sectional observational study and retrospective longitudinal analysis over 12 years.
Setting: Primary care, East of Scotland.
Background: Managed clinical networks have been used to coordinate chronic disease management across geographical regions in the United Kingdom. Our objective was to review how clinical networks and multidisciplinary team-working can be supported by Web-based information technology while clinical requirements continually change.
Methods: A Web-based population information system was developed and implemented in November 2000.
Aims: To extrapolate, from the proportion of subjects with observable retinopathy at diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus in routine clinical practice, the mean duration of undiagnosed diabetes.
Methods: On 1 October 1999, there were 4313 patients with type 2 diabetes in the 41 participating practices in the Tayside region (registered with one of 166 GPs). 501 (12%; 95% CI 11 to 13%) patients were selected using a pseudo-random number allocation algorithm, and practice lists checked for recently deceased, non-residents (45 exclusions).
Objective: We aim to correlate the incidence of diabetic retinopathy and maculopathy requiring laser treatment with the control of risk factors in the diabetic population of Tayside, Scotland, for the years 2001-2006.
Research Design And Methods: Retinal laser treatment, retinal screening, and diabetes care databases were linked for calendar years 2001-2006. Primary end points were the numbers of patients undergoing first or any laser treatment for diabetic retinopathy or maculopathy.
Objective: To compare the mortality of people who were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes over 65 years of age with that of nondiabetic individuals.
Research Design And Methods: Using a population-based diabetes information system for an observational cohort study in Tayside, Scotland, people who were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes over the age of 65 years between 1993 and 2002 were identified. Nondiabetic comparators, matched for age and sex, were identified from the nondiabetic population.