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1. Predictors of quality of life gains among people with type 1 diabetes participating in the Irish Dose Adjustment for Normal Eating (DAFNE) Study
MC O Hara1,M Byrne2, J Newell3,4, N Coffey4, D O’ Shea5,6, D Smith7, C McGurk8, H Courtney9, S Heller10, SF Dinneen1,11 for the Irish Study Group
1Diabetes and Endocrinology Centre, University Hospital Galway, Galway, Ireland
2School of Psychology, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland
3HRB Clinical Research Facility, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland,
4School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland
5Diabetes and Endocrinology, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
6Diabetes and Endocrinology, St. Columcille's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
7Diabetes, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
8Diabetes, St. Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny, Ireland
9Regional Endocrinology and Diabetes Centre, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, UK
10Academic Unit of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK
11School of Medicine, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland
2. Auditing structured education in a national Type 1 diabetes programme: does it make a difference?
G Thompson (1), CD Taylor (2)
3. Development and piloting of a structured education curriculum for insulin pump therapy prior to the REPOSE (Relative Effectiveness of Pumps Over MDI with Structured Education) trial.
C Taylor, H Rogers, C Ward, J Carling, D Kitchener, L Oliver
4. Case Report - Person with Type 1 diabetes and hypoglycaemia unawareness who regained hypoglycaemia awareness and improved glycaemic control post DAFNE course.
K Jones
"It's not dose adjustment for normal eating, it's dose adjustment for normal living"