Chew, Boon-How and Lai, Pauline Siew Mei and Sivaratnam, Dhashani A. P. and Basri, Nurul Iftida and Appannah, Geeta and Yusof, Barakatun Nisak Mohd and Thambiah, Subashini C. and Hanipah, Zubaidah Nor and Wong, Ping-Foo and Chang, Li-Cheng (2025) Efficient and Effective Diabetes Care in the Era of Digitalization and Hypercompetitive Research Culture: A Focused Review in the Western Pacific Region with Malaysia as a Case Study. Health Systems & Reform, 11 (1). p. 2417788. ISSN 2328-8604, DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/23288604.2024.2417788.
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There are approximately 220 million (about 12% regional prevalence) adults living with diabetes mellitus (DM) with its related complications, and morbidity knowingly or unconsciously in the Western Pacific Region (WP). The estimated healthcare cost in the WP and Malaysia was 240 billion USD and 1.0 billion USD in 2021 and 2017, respectively, with unmeasurable suffering and loss of health quality and economic productivity. This urgently calls for nothing less than concerted and preventive efforts from all stakeholders to invest in transforming healthcare professionals and reforming the healthcare system that prioritizes primary medical care setting, empowering allied health professionals, improvising health organization for the healthcare providers, improving health facilities and non-medical support for the people with DM. This article alludes to challenges in optimal diabetes care and proposes evidence-based initiatives over a 5-year period in a detailed roadmap to bring about dynamic and efficient healthcare services that are effective in managing people with DM using Malaysia as a case study for reference of other countries with similar backgrounds and issues. This includes a scanning on the landscape of clinical research in DM, dimensions and spectrum of research misconducts, possible common biases along the whole research process, key preventive strategies, implementation and limitations toward high-quality research. Lastly, digital medicine and how artificial intelligence could contribute to diabetes care and open science practices in research are also discussed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Universiti Putra Malaysia, Ministry of Health's Family Health Development Division |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Diabetes care; digital medicine; Meta-research; primary care; Roadmap |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Mar 2025 07:37 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Mar 2025 07:37 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/47689 |
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