Making Systems Changes for Better Diabetes Care

This Website is Designed For:

Primary Care Providers:
Physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or other professional who provide clinical care for people with diabetes.
Click here for suggested viewing for this audience. Educators: Dietitians, Certified Diabetes Educators, nurses and others who help patients manage their diabetes.
Click here for suggested viewing for this audience.Specialists: Any specialist who treats the complications caused by diabetes.
Click here for suggested viewing for this audience.Organ- izations: Managed care organizations, professional assoc-iations, institutions and agencies who create policies.
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Executive Summary

This practical resource is designed to help health care providers across the country make a difference in the way diabetes is prevented and treated. The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) undertook this task to help address the steps outlined by the Committee on the Quality of Health Care in America in its 2001 report to the National Institute of Medicine. NDEP’s team of diabetes experts asserts that systems change is essential in order to provide the type of evidence-based patient-centered care needed to effectively manage diabetes and prevent the serious complications associated with this serious disease. This site provides models, links, resources and tools to help the professional:

	ASSESS NEEDS. Guidelines to help assess your current situation and determine priorties for system changes.
	PLAN STRATEGIES. Models of care, ways to overcome issues and suggestions for realistic action plans.
	IMPLEMENT ACTIONS. Resource materials in a toolbox of links to other websites, PDF files and references.
	EVALUATE RESULTS. Techniques and tools to assist in the ongoing evaluation and systems change process.

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