Margot Vanfleteren discusses the value of patient blogs for diabetes care and management. She notes that patients spend 99.993% of their time managing their diabetes alone, with only 0.007% spent with healthcare providers. Patient blogs can help address quality of life issues like adherence, access to support, and self-management by providing a platform for psycho-social support and involvement in care. Blogs also give insights into patient needs and experiences that can help healthcare providers, the pharmaceutical industry, and researchers better understand barriers to person-centered care and identify opportunities for innovation.
2. Time alone
Time with HCP
0,007 % of time with
HCP
99,993% alone
The facts on diabetes care
Diabetes hands foundation
Sinsky C, Colligan L, Li L, Prgomet M, Reynolds S, Goeders L, et al. Allocation of Physician Time in Ambulatory Practice: A Time and Motion Study in 4
Specialties. Ann Intern Med. 2016;165:753-760. doi: 10.7326/M16-0961
3. WHY: QoL
Problem areas in diabetes care:
Adherence
Access to support
Self-management
Involvement in care
Unknown barriers to person-centered
care
Nicolucci, A., Kovacs Burns, K., Holt, R. I. G., Comaschi, M., Hermanns, N., Ishii, H., ... & Tarkun, I. (2013). Diabetes Attitudes, Wishes and Needs second
study (DAWN2): Crossnational benchmarking of diabetesrelated psychosocial outcomes for people with diabetes. Diabetic
Medicine, 30(7), 767-777.
6. 1. Healthcare professionals
Provides insight on needs of patient
Whats hot and happening in the community
Transparency:
Ethical: informed consent
Logic: empowerment movement
Patient as equivalent actor
7. 2. Patient(s)
For the blogger:
Coping
Document treatment history
Accessible platform
Psycho-social support
Involved in care
For patient community:
Sharing is caring
psycho-social support
Be empowered
Involved in care
8. 3. Pharmaceutical industry
Discover needs
What life is the patient experiencing?
Open communication/brainstorm on possible solutions
Direct feedback
Innovation
9. 4. Health and life sciences industry
Innovation
Equivalent actor
Feedback
Direct communication
Fast track
New collaborative opportunities
11. Value of a (patient) blog
Stimulate adherence: active processing of info leads to better
understanding of disease and treatment
Access to social support: social media connects people
Patients becomes care partners: they know more and can thus
discuss treatment options
Understanding of needs: patient blogs open new opportunities
for pharmaceutical industry to have a real life understanding of
challenges.
14. Margot Vanfleteren
@MargotVF
o Student Health sciences
o Living with type 1 diabetes
o Patient entrepreneur
o Patient advocate
https://simplyput.blog/contact/
Editor's Notes
#3: During the office day, physicians spent 27.0% of their total time on direct clinical face time with patients and 49.2% of their time on EHR and desk work.
- Sinsky C, Colligan L, Li L, Prgomet M, Reynolds S, Goeders L, et al. Allocation of Physician Time in Ambulatory Practice: A Time and Motion Study in 4 Specialties. Ann Intern Med. 2016;165:753-760.doi: 10.7326/M16-0961
#4: QOL was more problematic in PWD who had little to no support system according to dawn 2 study.
#6: Peyrot, M., Burns, K. K., Davies, M., Forbes, A., Hermanns, N., Holt, R., ... & Willaing, I. (2013). Diabetes Attitudes Wishes and Needs 2 (DAWN2): a multinational, multi-stakeholder study of psychosocial issues in diabetes and person-centred diabetes care.Diabetes research and clinical practice,99(2), 174-184.