"Sharing approaches...improving lives"

Welcome to Diabetes Models for Care:

This section provides you with access to the MCDIN/New England Chronic Disease Directory Models for Care database, a resource bank that details clinical improvement projects across New England that have demonstrated improved outcomes. 

Search the database for Diabetes models that work and link to resources to help you plan and implement a quality improvement project for your particular healthcare practice.

Articles of Interest:

Family Practice Management - March 2000
Helping Patients Take Charge of their Chronic Illnesses

Key Points:

• The old models of care, where physicians tell patients what to do and try to motivate them to change, do not work.
• Because patients' day-to-day decisions have a tremendous impact on their health, they must be active, informed participants in the health care process.
• Physicians can help patients take charge of their conditions by encouraging them to set self-management goals.

The following articles are accessible if you are a registered member of  Medscape.  In order to view these, you must have a User Name & Password.  Click here to register with Medscape.

Intensive Blood Glucose Control is Cost-Effective in Type 2 Diabetics:
Intensive blood glucose control in Type 2 diabetics costs more than conventional therapy, but provides savings in the form of reduced complications according to a report in the May 20th issue of the British Medical Journal.

Disease Management Slashes Medicare Costs:
Medicare managed care plans can sharply reduce overall healthcare spending and improve the health of beneficiaries by using disease management, according to data released by American Healthways.

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