May 24, 2024

Diabetes Distress Workgroup Meeting, 5/24/2024

 

Attendees: Malak Abdel-Hadi, Casey Berman, Don Buckingham, Michelle Coulter, Angela Gonzalez, Tammy Hannon, Jennifer Iyengar, Katelyn O’Brien, Emily Ospelt, Nicole Rioles, Alissa Roberts, Katherine Semenkovich, Devin Steenkamp, Ryan Tweet, Mary Youyiouklis,

 

Welcome to Angela Gonzalez and Katelyn O’Brien who are practicing at BMC

 

BMC Adults

• Working on tech optimization
• Angela and Katelyn are partnering to complete one hour intake. DDS being done.
• DDS now integrated into Epic and MyChart thanks to a collaboration with Pharmacy.
• Looking to build screening in Spanish
• Made first 8 questions mandatory. Other questions optional to answer.
• BPA on health maintenance.
• “Cathartic to go through results”

 

 

Michigan Adults

• Auto assigned in Epic.
• QR code made
• Mapped by June
• Implemented in two clinics.
• Shared: https://diabetesdistress.org/access-dds/

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

 

• Piloting in clinic
• Lots of staff turn over
• Screening every other visit- either PAID or PHQ
• Still using paper/ still transitioning to Epic
• Still with 1 clinician until spread

 

The Cleveland Clinic (CCF)

• SMAS using group visits (SMA)
• Questions not in Epic yet

 

 

Nationwide Children’s

• PAID + Parent
• Paper
• Transition phase: in Epic, MyChart, phone

 

IU

• Interval history
• Using Twizzle: PAID T on phones
• Completing in clinic
• Front desk physically giving to patients
• Scans in- gets in as form

 

 

 

Reminders:

• Please track your distress screening monthly numbers in Smartsheet so that we can track screening rates as a process improvement measure
• Everyone is strongly encouraged to document the tests of change you are implementing in your respective interventions
• Next meeting: we will skip June meeting because of ADA Sci Session conflicts. Next meeting will be Friday July 26^th from 12-1 pm (EST). We will use time in the next meeting to talk about getting DDS in the T1DX-QI Data Specification.