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
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...
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| author | Boon-How Chew Pauline Siew Mei Lai Dhashani A/P Sivaratnam Nurul Iftida Basri Geeta Appannah Barakatun Nisak Mohd Yusof Subashini C. Thambiah Zubaidah Nor Hanipah Ping-Foo Wong Li-Cheng Chang |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1f8510c443984dc9b7304c50089c5e3e2025-01-23T18:46:18ZengTaylor & Francis GroupHealth Systems & Reform2328-86042328-86202025-12-0111110.1080/23288604.2024.2417788Efficient 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 StudyBoon-How Chew0Pauline Siew Mei Lai1Dhashani A/P Sivaratnam2Nurul Iftida Basri3Geeta Appannah4Barakatun Nisak Mohd Yusof5Subashini C. Thambiah6Zubaidah Nor Hanipah7Ping-Foo Wong8Li-Cheng Chang9Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, MalaysiaDepartment of Primary Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, School of Medical and Life Sciences, Sunway University, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, MalaysiaDepartment of Opthalmology, Faculty of .Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, MalaysiaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, MalaysiaDepartment of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, MalaysiaDepartment of Dietetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, MalaysiaDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, MalaysiaDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, MalaysiaCheras Baru Health Clinic, Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaKuang Health Clinic, Pekan Kuang, Gombak, Selangor, MalaysiaThere 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.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23288604.2024.2417788Diabetes caredigital medicineMeta-researchprimary careRoadmap |
| spellingShingle | Boon-How Chew Pauline Siew Mei Lai Dhashani A/P Sivaratnam Nurul Iftida Basri Geeta Appannah Barakatun Nisak Mohd Yusof Subashini C. Thambiah Zubaidah Nor Hanipah Ping-Foo Wong Li-Cheng Chang 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 Diabetes care digital medicine Meta-research primary care Roadmap |
| title | 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 |
| title_full | 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 |
| title_fullStr | 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 |
| title_full_unstemmed | 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 |
| title_short | 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 |
| title_sort | 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 |
| topic | Diabetes care digital medicine Meta-research primary care Roadmap |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23288604.2024.2417788 |
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