Diabetes

The Better Diabetes Care Toolbox is a Web-based list of useful tools to help diabetes health care providers and planners locate, select, and effectively implement them into practice.

This toolkit contains information about comprehensive diabetes exams focused on symptoms and complications of diabetes. The toolkit explains how to differentiate a comprehensive diabetes exam from an annual physical. By providing a specialized diabetes exam, providers are able to dedicate attention to disease management and test results.

Diabetic patients may be interested in these materials so that they can advocate for a comprehensive diabetes examination with their physician.

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This guide reinforces consistent diabetes messages across the four disciplines—pharmacy, podiatry, optometry, and dentistry (PPOD)—and promotes a team approach to comprehensive diabetes care that encourages collaboration among all care providers.

The guide includes the following sections:

• Diabetes: A major health problem
• Impact of controlling the ABCs of diabetes
• Diabetes management and team care
• What to discuss with patients with diabetes
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This 42-page guide for women presents healthy behaviors to prevent and manage the many health conditions that can affect them. The guide addresses the following topics:

• Recommended screenings and immunizations for women at average risk for most diseases and those at high-risk for specific diseases
• Medicare-covered preventive services
• Healthy heart and stroke prevention
• Warning signs of heart attack and stroke
• Healthy bones
• Breast cancer...

This fact sheet summarizes the results of research that have contributed to a better understanding of the disparities in the prevalence of diabetes and related complications among different racial and ethnic groups, identification of some of the barriers to health care that contribute to these disparities, and identification of changes that could be made to eliminate the barriers and reduce the disparities.

This algorithm is derived from the evidence-based clinical practice guideline, Management of Diabetes Mellitus, developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense (VA/DoD). It is intended to:

• Promote evidence-based management of individuals with diabetes
• Identify the critical decision points in management of patients with diabetes mellitus, such as glycemic control, evaluation of the eyes and feet, and co-morbid conditions (e.g....

The Diabetes Eye Examination Report is a one-page tool for medical providers to record eye examination results and plans of treatment for patients with diabetes.

This tool helps providers record the following information:

• Visual acuity
• Intraocular pressure
• Retinal examination findings
• Cataract limitations
• Glaucoma status
• Plans of treatment

The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) is a federally-sponsored initiative that involves public and private partners to improve the treatment and outcomes for people with diabetes, to promote early diagnosis, and to prevent the onset of diabetes. The NDEP’s objectives are to:

• Increase awareness of the seriousness of diabetes, its risk factors, and strategies for preventing diabetes and its complications among at-risk groups
• Improve understanding about diabetes and...

This algorithm is derived from the evidence-based clinical practice guideline Management of Diabetes Mellitus, developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense. By clicking on the individual steps in this interactive algorithm, the user can access the more detailed information in the Module M summary and related modules.

This algorithm includes the following steps:

• Is this a patient with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus?
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This fact sheet provides information to consumers about the risk factors and symptoms of diabetes.

This fact sheet addresses the following topics:

• Am I at risk of getting diabetes?
• What are some signs and symptoms of diabetes?