Karen Reed

Project Work

I have written extensively on many aspects of both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes mellitus. This has included provision of material for the information and education of both patients and health care professionals.

Other work recently undertaken has involved writing reports and publications addressing health care delivery, local service provision and other health care research.

Projects and publications

Patient information and education

• Provision of general patient information for people with diabetes for internet, CD-ROM and hard copy publication
• Provision of information on insulin pump therapy, for patients and health care professionals
• Generation of a modular syllabus to be further developed into an intensive education program for people with diabetes
• Web site reviews
  • Reed K, Lehmann ED. Website Review: Diabetes Insight - www.diabetes-insight.info. Diabetes Technol Ther. 2005 Jun;7(3):573-580. (PubMed)
  • Reed K, Lehmann ED. Diabetes Website Review: www.2aida.org. Diabetes Technol Ther 2005;7(5):741-754. (PubMed)
  • Reed K, Lehmann ED. Interactive Educational Diabetes/Insulin Tutorial at www.2aida.info. Diabetes Technol Ther. 2006; 8 (1):126-137. (PubMed)
• Consultant editing of U.S. version of Everything You Need to Know About Diabetes for publication in the U.K. in 2004 (Excluding cover design) (Buy from Amazon.co.uk)

Health care delivery

• Research involvements:
  • Quality of care
  • Length of stay
• Reviews of service provision
  • Developing Diabetes Services in Barking Havering and Redbridge: Report on current service provision, and recommendations for the development of diabetes health care services in the Barking, Havering and Redbridge area. Sarah Chilvers BSc Hons RGN RHV MBA, Rory McCrea MB BS MSc MRCGP, Karen Reed BSc Hons, Marie Cooper RGN BSc MSc; November 2001.
• Work addressing enabling factors and barriers associated with secondary to primary care shifts (covering a wide range of clinical areas)

Other

• Compilation of reports in health care research, with publication to follow
  • Chilvers S, McCrea R, Green G, Reed K. What Matters? An insight into the views of people living with MS in relation to research priorities of the MS Society. London: MS Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; 2001.

I am still(!!) working on a book for people with diabetes, which aims to bridge the gap between the medical literature and the more basic guides to diabetes that are currently available. The book provides an insight into the fundamental biology of diabetes and explains how this knowledge can be used to promote better blood glucose control in day-to-day life.

 Last updated May 2011