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plan for ongoing self-management support, which, along with the participant’s outcomes and goals, will be communicated to other members of the health care team (not just the referring provider). Other new language states that, because self-management takes place outside clinical and education settings, patients will be helped in formulating a plan to find community-based resources that may support their ongoing diabetes self-management. Standard 9: Patient progress. DSME and DSMS providers will monitor whether participants are achieving their personal diabetes self-management goals and other outcomes, as a way to evaluate the effectiveness of the educational interventions. Assessment of participant outcomes must occur at appropriate intervals. Standard 10: Quality improvement. DSME providers will measure the effectiveness of the education and support and look for ways to improve any identified gaps in services or service quality using a systematic review of process and outcome data. Instead of requiring a written continuous quality improvement plan, as before, the revised standard lists fundamental questions that should be answered by an improvement process. Once areas for improvement are identified, the DSME provider must designate timelines and important milestones. Additional Research should be required for community, lay, or peer workers who participate in providing DSME or who provide DSMS. Update on ADA’s Living With Type 2 Diabetes Program M ore than 223,000 people have received information and support from the Association’s free Living With Type 2 Diabetes program since its launch in April 2011. And nearly 730,000 of the program’s Where Do I Begin? booklet “offers complex information in a format that is easy to comprehend, so my teaching can be reinforced by a take home piece.” An Association survey of health care professionals who had ordered the booklet found that 97 percent of the respondents were very satisfied with it. Share the Where Do I Begin? booklet with your newly diagnosed patients to help them start their journey with diabetes with the information they need. Order your free copies at diabetes.org/atdx. Diabetes Care and Diabetes to Require Dual HbA1c Reporting Living With Type 2 Diabetes booklets have been distributed to date. Primary care providers continue to provide positive feedback on the program and the booklet. As one provider reported to the Association: Patients are often overwhelmed when they hear they have developed diabetes. They are usually scared and upset. I find that this booklet is great to give them just enough information at just the right time. Then we work into enrollment in the “Living With Type 2 Diabetes” program. I have found it to be a really great resource. Thank you so much! In another representative comment, a provider stated that the This revision of the Standards also identifies three areas requiring further research: (1) the influence of organizational structure on the effectiveness of the provision of DSME and DSMS, (2) the impact of using a structured curriculum in DSME, and (3) the training that Professional Section Quarterly s of January 1, 2013, the Association’s journals Diabetes Care and Diabetes will require manuscript submissions to report HbA1c levels in both percent Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) units and mmol/mol Système International (SI) units. Commentaries in the December issue of Diabetes Care and the January issue of Diabetes will detail the reasons for the policy change, which are summarized below. The December issue of Diabetes Care will also feature several other major pieces on HbA1c, including a comprehensive review by David B. Sacks, MB, ChB, of the National Institutes of Health on the history, methodology, and pros and cons of the most commonly used methods of HbA1c measurement. The traditional method of reporting HbA1c as a percentage of hemoglobin was subsequently anchored to the DCCT, which conclusively demonstrated the value of HbA1c as a diabetes management tool and predictor of complications, highlighting the need for accurate, standardized HbA1c determinations. (DCCT continued on page 14 5 A http://www.diabetes.org/atdx

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Professional Section Quarterly - Fall 2012

Professional Section Quarterly - Fall 2012
Contents
Updated DSME Standards
Dual HbA1c Reporting in ADA Journals
73rd Scientific Sessions Info
Postgrad Course Preconference Workshop

Professional Section Quarterly - Fall 2012