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The DAFNE
programme is based on the Intensive Insulin Therapy (ITT) education
programme developed at end of the 1970s by the diabetes team at the
WHO Collaborating Centre for Diabetes in Düsseldorf, Germany,
led by the late Professor Michael Berger.
Professor Berger’s team showed that the education programme produced
a long lasting improvement in blood glucose control without an increase
in severe hypoglycaemia. The results were so impressive that since
the 1980s this approach for the management of Type 1 diabetes has
been widely adopted within the German healthcare system and is also
widely used in other parts of Europe.
If you would like to find out more about the background to DAFNE,
the work performed by Professor Berger and his team and other research
carried out in Europe, you might like to read the published scientific
papers. [1-10]
These papers can be ordered from either:
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