The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) published an update to its “Guiding Principles” for managing the care of patients with diabetes or prediabetes.
Available for free online, the principles have been revised for the first time since 2014 to reflect “new and changing evidence that has evolved over the last several years.” This includes greater emphasis on diabetes self-management, patient education and shared decision-making between patients and clinicians, as well as an entirely new principle on managing obesity as part of diabetes care.
Led by a writing committee composed of physicians from multiple medical societies, the principles don’t represent a new guideline, but instead “synthesize areas of general agreement among existing guidelines to help guide primary care providers and health care teams to deliver quality care to adults with or at risk for diabetes.”
The 10 principles are divided into individual chapters and encompass topics ranging from identifying patients with undiagnosed prediabetes or diabetes, individualizing blood glucose management and detecting and treating microvascular complications.
Type 2 diabetes is the main focus of the recommendations, although some of the principles apply to type 1 diabetes and gestational diabetes, according to the paper.
Read the summary of the principles and download the full PDF using the link below:
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