Phases of Diabetes Care
Phases of Diabetes Care Wednesday, May 15, 2019 Recording | Slides Diabetes care can be organized into three phases: pre-visit, intra-visit, and post-visit. Opportunities exist during each phase to introduce practice changes that can help engage and support patients in their diabetes care and management. Health care teams can optimize diabetes encounters by taking a […]
Developing the Role of Community Health Workers and other Support Staff in Diabetes Prevention, Treatment, and Follow-Up
Developing the Role of Community Health Workers and other Support Staff in Diabetes Prevention, Treatment, and Follow-Up Thursday, April 25, 2019 Recording Community Health Workers (CHW) have been shown to be especially successful reaching hard to access populations such as agricultural workers and their families as well as the homeless and residents of public housing. […]
Diabetes Continuum of Care: Using Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorder Integration to Address Older Adults with Cognitive Impairments and Diabetes
Diabetes Continuum of Care: Using Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorder Integration to Address Older Adults with Cognitive Impairments and Diabetes Tuesday, April 9, 2019 Recording | Slides Diabetes affects more than 30 million people in the United States. Multi-tiered efforts to prevent, treat and manage diabetes are critical in reducing the burden of diabetes, […]
Nonadherence and Behavior Change: How are You Helping your Patients?
Nonadherence and Behavior Change: How are You Helping your Patients? Tuesday, October 30, 2018 Recording | Slides Research studies indicate that diabetes affects around 9% of the U.S. population, and it is a leading cause of heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, lower limb amputations, and blindness among U.S. adults. A recent CDC publication estimated direct […]
Microvascular Complications and Foot Care
Microvascular Complications and Foot Care Tuesday, July 31, 2018 Recording | Slides The importance of protecting the body from hyperglycemia cannot be overstated; the direct and indirect effects on the human vascular tree are the major source of morbidity and mortality in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Diabetes complications are divided into microvascular (due to damage […]