Diabetic patient satisfaction on the quality of outpatient health care services.

Aim: To assess the degree of satisfaction of diabetic patients with health care services and to determine the factors that influence it.

Methods: It was a cross sectional study conducted in 2018 among diabetic outpatients of the department of endocrinology of the university hospital La Rabta. Patients general characteristics were noted.

The remission phase in adolescents and young adults with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes mellitus: prevalence, predicting factors and glycemic control during follow-up.

Objective: There is little data about the remission phase in adolescents and young adults with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D). The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of remission and its predicting factors among adolescents and young adults with newly diagnosed T1D and to assess the association between remission and long-term glycemic control in this population.

Methods: This is a longitudinal and retrospective study including 128 type 1 diabetic patients aged between 12 and 30 years at diabetes onset.