Aug 23, 2024

Diabetes Distress Workgroup Meeting Minutes, 8/23/2024

Attendees: Malak Abdel-Hadi, Casey Berman, Angela Gonzalez, Tammy Hannon, Jennifer Iyengar, Katelyn O’Brien, Emily Ospelt, Nicole Rioles, Alissa Roberts, Saketh Rompicherla, Ryan Tweet, Anton Wirsch, Risa Wolf

Summary of the screeners being use now in clinical practice

 

Clinic name	PAID T (14 item)	T1-DDAS (8 item)	T1-DDAS (30item)	DDS (17 item)
Boston Medical Center		1 (required)	1 (optional)
Indiana U. Riley	1 (paper)
Michigan Adult		1
Michigan Pediatrics	1
Nationwide Children’s	1
NYU	1 (will roll out in Sept)
OHSU		1 (MyChart)		1
Seattle Children’s	1

Feedback:

• Preference to have total score plus raw scores of sub-sections

 

BMC Adults

• Small cohort still- tied to device intakes in MyChart messages (60 min visit)
  MyChart or in visit, if not done then

 

Indiana University

• New workflow
• Cut point for alert
• Social worker is looking at screener data weekly- in real time or within a week
• Changing how they are documenting in Cerner
• High numbers may be double screen
• Approval to hire another social worker
• Nurses shared feedback- they like the PAID T

 

Michigan Adults

• Found missing patients. Timestamp issue
• At 1,511 patients
• Showed display- being able to select/unselect different clinics to show implementation rates

 

Nationwide Children’s

• Working on ISPAD poster.
• Have increased age group screened to 8-18 y/o
• New psychologist starts in September

 

NYU Langone, Mineola

• PAID T and Parent in REDCap is getting implemented
• Will try to get into Epic
• Annually survey
• Asked: how do you address positive screens? Responses: Psychologists; Social work; or provider in clinical visit

 

Oregon Health and Science University

• Putting together a workshop in conference for clinics that do not have resources in place
• Workshop will take place at leaning session, November 11^th, in Chicago, approximately 11:00-12:30 pm, led by Ryan Tweet, Katherine Semenkovich, and Jill Weissberg-Benchell.
  • Will divide group into peds and adults
  • Share practical tools for how to have a thoughtful conversation with PWD who have scored positive on a diabetes distress scare

 

Seattle

• Stable screening and reporting

 

Reminders:

• If your clinic isn’t represented in the chart (above, please email Nicole to share what scale your clinic is using.)
• 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: Friday 9/27 from 12-1 pm (EST)