AIM Diabetes Care Resources

· Patient hand outs and web info in English and Spanish

1. From the ADA –encourage your pts to access the website and sign up for

1. Living with Diabetes/Newly Diagnosed Free Program

2. My Food Advisor (for recipes, nutrition advice, meal planning)

3. Food and fitness

4. Video and Info on glucose control and glucometer use

5. A1c explanation in text and in audio

6. Diabetes in my Community (Spanish text and audio)

2. NDEP pt education in Spanish

3. Low Health Literacy DM Handouts from Clinicians for the Underserve (eng/spanish)

4. from the Familydoc.org (click upper R hand for Spanish)

1. Diabetes overview Spanish

2. DM Monitoring Spanish

3. DM Nutrition Spanish

4. DM meds Spanish

5. Video on Diabetes

1. CVS glucose testing

2. CVS what is diabetes

3. CVS how to treat type 2 DM

4. CVS how to give insulin shot

6. Learning about Diabetes (Spanish, English )

· How to Prescribe diabetes supplies

1. Diabetes Device/Supplies Overview (with how to write Rxs instructions)
2. Video on meter use

· Provider Resources

1. ADA Standards of Diabetes Care 2011
2. Medical management of hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes: A consensus algorithm for the initiation and adjustment of therapy: A consensus statement of the American Diabetes Association and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. Diabetes Care 2009 Jan; 32:193

· Referrals

1. Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center- has full service multidisciplinary team of physician, nurses/educators, social workers who provides teaching, clinical care, and ongoing support in self management. The referral can be made in Eclipsys. PGY 2 residents will spend a block at the NBD Center during OPD block2.

2. AIM DM Teaching and Management Clinic- This is an on-site clinic where residents will work alongside Evelyn Thompson, our diabetic educator, under the supervision of an attending to provide for close DM follow up care for high risk and uncontrolled diabetics in AIM (especially pts with a1c over 9). Patients who have not met their goal for DM control should be referred to this clinic. This clinic provides separate clinical care (AM) and teaching classes (PM). Referrals are made thru Eclipsys with your PFAs.