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The
CDC, American Diabetes Association, American Public Health
Association, and the Association of State and Territorial Health
Officials cosponsor the Initiative
on Diabetes and Women's Health, which has three phases: a
report; the National Public Health Action Plan for Women and
Diabetes; and a national conference. CDC's recently published
report, Diabetes
and Women’s Health Across the Life Stages: A Public Health
Perspective,* is the first major publication to address
the unique and serious impact diabetes has on women throughout
life and to address the public health implications of these
issues.
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National Diabetes Education
Program Resources
Team Care: Comprehensive Lifetime Management for Diabetes
This report was created to help organizational leaders in health
care systems and purchasers of health care implement
multidisciplinary team care for people with diabetes in all
clinical settings. It describes how to reduce the human and
economic toll of diabetes through a continuous, proactive,
planned, patient-centered, and population-based approach to
care.
Community
Partnership Guide
This how-to kit is the ideal tool to help launch diabetes
activities in your community. The 150-page kit contains ideas and
guidelines to start partnerships, plan activities, and raise
community awareness
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Hispanic/Latino
Nutrition Campaign
The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP),
has launched a nutrition campaign aimed at Hispanics and Latinos
who have diabetes or are at high risk for developing the disease,
and their families.
A key component of the "It's more than food, it's life"
campaign is a meal planner that includes a recipe guide offering
tips on healthy eating that could be enjoyed by the whole
family.
Anyone can get a free copy of the meal planner and recipe guide by
calling toll-free 1-877-232-3422, which is answered in
English
and Spanish.
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Patient
Education and Consumer Activation in Chronic Disease
(October 2000)
A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report
outlining evidence and research demonstrating that people who take
an active role in their health experience better health outcomes.
Order
Information
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Welcome to Diabetes Resources & Tools:
This section provides you with the resources and tools in
use by your colleagues across New
England to make clinical guidelines and other quality improvement tools work
for their
practice. Diabetes self-care checklists, culturally competent patient education
materials, data tracking tools, and staff training resources are among the many goodies
you will find here.
You can also search
this section for diabetes resources & tools that are proven to work, and to find other tools
that clinicians are using to meet the growing demands of accrediting and regulatory
bodies.
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Tools &
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Massachusetts
Diabetes Control Program
Resources
Diabetes
At-Risk, Vision, Foot Care, and Flu Brochures available for download
in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Haitian Creole.
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Practice
Management Tools
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The AHRQ
Quality Indicators (QIs) are measures of health care quality
that make use of readily available hospital inpatient
administrative data. Software and a user guide are now available
that will help users apply the Quality Indicators to their own
data. They are based on a technical review developed by the UCSF-Stanford
Evidence-Based Practice Center. The Prevention Quality
Indicators (QIs) are a set of measures that can be used with
hospital inpatient discharge data to identify "ambulatory
care-sensitive conditions." These are conditions for which
good outpatient care can potentially prevent the need for
hospitalization or for which early intervention can prevent
complications or more severe disease.
Download software for Prevention
Quality Indicators.
Gestational
Diabetes Teaching Guide
Ohio State University's Teaching Guide created to reduce
the risk of complications to mother with gestational diabetes
and her baby.
Diabetes
Care Flow Sheet/Practice Management Tool
Blue Cross & Blue Shield diabetes care flow sheet, developed by the
Massachusetts
Diabetes Control Program (June 2001), can be used by any practice for
quality improvement and diabetic patient care.
Diabetes
Retinal Eye Exam Reminder Letter
Customizable letter from Blue Cross & Blue Shield reminding patients to schedule their dilated
eye exam. Available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
National Diabetes Education Outcomes System (NDEOS) Resources
from American
Association of Diabetes Educators
These are informative downloadable PDF files describing NDEOS
project.
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Massachusetts
Health Promotion Clearinghouse
The Massachusetts
Health Promotion Clearinghouse, an on-line statewide resource funded by
the MA Department of Public Health distributes health promotion
materials for patients and professionals on diabetes.
Materials
are available free of charge to assist in the health promotion
efforts of individuals, groups and communities in Massachusetts.
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American Diabetes Association
The American Diabetes Association has
basic information
brochures for people with diabetes available for download in
English and Spanish.
Nutrition
and exercise
information is also available.
Wisdom
Youth Zone:
Wisdom Youth Zone is part of the ADA's web devoted
exclusively to diabetic youth. To order WIZDOM
KIT, a kit for kids (and parents) with
diabetes, call 1-800-DIABETES and select Option #6.
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National
Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC)
NDIC is an information dissemination service of the NIDDK.
At this website, you will find the complete list of publications
on diabetes and related issues downloadable in PDF
format or ordered
as single
(free) copies or in bulk
(cost). Many single copies are free and can
be reproduced for distribution. Easy-to-read and information in
Spanish is also available.
On-line ordering not available.
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Taking
On Diabetes Toolkit
The Toolkit was initially presented as a benefit of attending
the Taking on Diabetes conference, held August 4-5, 1999.
The conference, sponsored by American Association for Health
Plans, Health Care Financing Administration, and the American
Diabetes Association, focused on three elements of successful
diabetes care: medical management, worksite health
programs, and community partnerships. The toolkit contains outreach tools targeting
patients, providers, and the community, as well as
organizational flow sheets and charts designed to assist
providers and health plans in the provision of high-quality
diabetes care. The tools can be utilized as is or adapted/modified
to meet your organizational needs.
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National
Diabetes Education Program (Publications & Order Info.)
Site includes downloadable or orderable educational information
for various
target audiences such as Asian-American, African- American and
Latino populations as well as health care provider diabetes
management tools.
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Center
for Disease Control's Division of Diabetes Translation
The Division of Diabetes Translation's (DDT) goal is to reduce
the burden of diabetes in the United States. The division works
to achieve this goal by combining support for public
health-oriented diabetes control programs and translating
diabetes research findings into widespread clinical and public
health practice.
Publications
& Products - Spanish, English
Take
Charge of Your Diabetes Book
CDC's comprehensive publication written for adults with diabetes. It
is meant to be used as a supplement to other information from
health care providers. Written in easy to understand
non-medical terminology.
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Joslin
Diabetes Center On-line Library
Information to help patients, relatives or friends of
people with diabetes, understand some essential aspect of
diabetes care and management. Individual topics can be
easily photocopied as often as needed for use in counseling
sessions, to give to patients for follow-up care, to make
available in patient reception areas, or for numerous other
uses.
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Feet Can Last A Lifetime: A
Health Care Provider's Guide to Preventing Diabetes Foot
Problems - 2001 Edition
If you are a health care provider who treats people with
diabetes, this NDEP/NIDDK kit is designed to help you implement
the basic steps for preventive foot care in your practice.
Take
Care of Your Feet for a Lifetime: A Guide for People with
Diabetes
If you have diabetes, you should know that your feet need
special attention. This illustrated booklet helps patients care
for their feet and provides tips to help them avoid serious foot
problems.
Available in Spanish
also.
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American
Medical Association 
The
American Medical Association (AMA) is committed to responding to
the dramatic changes in the nation's demographics
and in health care delivery systems in many ways. Representative of the AMA's
work in this regard is the Cultural Competence
Compendium, a 460-page resource guide to help physicians
and other health professionals communicate with patients and
provide individualized, respectful, patient-centered care.
Special Offer: Order
the Compendium now for only $25--half-off the
cover price of $50! To order, call Enza
Messineo at (312) 464-5333. Selected sections
of the compendium are available on-line.
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Improving
Chronic Care Illness
Improving Chronic Illness Care, a national program of the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, is dedicated to the idea that
United States health care can do better. The 99 million
Americans who suffer from diabetes, depression and other chronic
conditions can lead healthier lives. Providers who care for
chronically ill patients can be better supported with
guidelines, specialty expertise and information systems. Overall
health care costs can be lowered through better care delivery.
This wonderful web site contains useful chronic care tools and
resources for both health care professionals and patients.
The site also contains their Chronic
Care Model which summarizes the basic elements for improving
care in health systems at the community, organization, practice
and patient levels.
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20
Tips to Prevent Medical Errors (English), (Spanish)
AHRQ's
Spanish language version of the new fact sheet with practical tips
to help people protect themselves from errors in their health
care. 20 Tips to Prevent Medical Errors has specific,
research - based recommendations on preventing medical errors
related to medicines, hospital stays & surgery.
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Docs
Need SOC's (Systems of Care)
A Quality Improvement tool for primary care and an invaluable downloadable resource
for anyone wanting to implement organizational QI in their
practice. This tool focuses on the four essential aspects
of quality improvement to create an effective and efficient
organization. DOCS need SOC's is the final report of the West Virginia Primary Care
Association Quality Improvement Project in conjunction with the
New River Health Association.
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