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From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
Determine where your practice is before you begin quality improvement and evaluate the effects of the changes you implement.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
Customize a list of standing orders for your patients with diabetes and then print your customized version.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
Keep track of key examination findings for every visit.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
This tool will help you assess your patients_ awareness and appreciation of many aspects of self-care.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
Arrange to have this form completed when your patient visits the ophthalmologist.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
This tool lists what to consider before providing patients with these medications.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
Use this tool to assign team member responsibilities to help implement clinical guidelines.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
A workbook patients can use to document the steps they take toward better health.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
What to consider before asking patients to use the Self-Management Workbook.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
This questionnaire can help patients identify their concerns before they visit your practice.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
This tool helps you identify, assess, and respond to your patients concerns.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
Instructions for proper foot care that all patients with diabetes should follow.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
This illustrated worksheet enables you to record the results of filament tests for 10 visits.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
Use this calculator tool to determine a Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR).
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
Use this calculator tool to determine a Target Heart Rate (THR).
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
This tool helps patients identify goals, challenges, and strategies.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
This easy-to-use tool will help patients assess the nutritional value of their meals.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
Guidelines patients can follow to make healthy eating choices.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
Tips that can help sedentary patients adopt a more active lifestyle.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
A prescription form to provide patients with personalized guidelines for the aerobic exercise they have chosen.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
A checklist to help patients monitor their blood glucose regularly.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
A checklist to help patients manage their medications.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
A form to help patients keep important information handy at all times.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
Practical tips for patients who are beginning insulin therapy.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
This tool will help calculate patient body mass index (BMI).
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
A form for patients to record their test results and keep track of their progress.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
What patients need to know about monitoring, exercise, self-management, and preventive care, on one page.
These video and guidebooks are designed to help educate patients about a variety of conditions, including breast, lung and prostate cancer; diabetes; and depression.
They are available free to ACP members, though quantities are limited.
Learn what a registry is, why to use one to improve chronic care, how a registry works, how to select one, and how to implement it successfully.
The source material for this tutorial is the 'Using Computerized Registries in Chronic Disease Care' report, which has been adapted with permission from the California Healthcare Foundation.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
The source material for this tutorial is the 'Chronic Disease Registries: A Product Review' report, which has been adapted with permission from the California Healthcare Foundation.
See a patient registry system in use. Learn some of the basic principles of registries and how they can assist you in improving the care of patients with chronic diseases like diabetes.
This interactive tutorial demonstrates the proper use of a 10g monofilament to perform a foot sensory examination.
NOTE: This content was excerpted from the ACP Clinical Skills Module, Diabetic Foot Ulcers.
Short patient survey about current patient practices regarding the care of their feet.
NOTE: This content was excerpted from the ACP Clinical Skills Module, Diabetic Foot Ulcers.
Use this copier-ready master to create your own stickers to place on the medical record. This master is designed to be reproduced on brightly colored 1" x 2-5/8" labels from Avery.
NOTE: This content was excerpted from the ACP Clinical Skills Module, Diabetic Foot Ulcers.
This single page contains a Statement of Certifying Patient for Therapeutic Footwear and a Prescription Form for Therapeutic Footwear.
NOTE: This content was excerpted from the ACP Clinical Skills Module, Diabetic Foot Ulcers.
From the ACP's Practice Management Center (PMC), this Microsoft Word document is a coding tool for reporting the appropriate PQRI quality measures.
The front side lists 11 PQRI quality measures that ACP identified as being particularly relevant to internal medicine, as well as practical to collect. The back of the document lists the full definition of each of the 11 measures and describes the eligible patient population for each measure.
In September 2004, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the American College of Physicians (ACP), America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), joined together to create a voluntary organizational alliance that is dedicated to developing methods that will most effectively and efficiently measure and improve performance in the ambulatory care setting. This group, named the AQA Alliance, soon identified a "starter set" of measures for assessing ambulatory care.
This tool will provide direct answers to a variety of questions related to the following measures:
- HbA1C management
- HbA1C management control
- Blood pressure management
- Lipid measurement
- LDL cholesterol level (<130 mg/dL)
- Eye exam
Note: ACP membership is required to view this material. For more information, visit pier.acponline.org.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide, this list provides links and contact information for a variety of organizations, web sites, suppliers, information providers, and other resources that may be helpful in improving the care of patients with diabetes.
Diabetes PHD (Personal Health Decisions), from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and powered by the Archimedes simulation engine, is a powerful new risk assessment tool. It can be used to explore the effects of a wide variety of health care interventions, including losing weight, stopping smoking, and taking certain medications.
There are 20.8 million children and adults in the US with diabetes -- and nearly one-third of them (or 6.2 million people) do not know it. Take this simple risk test from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) to see if you are at risk for having or developing type 2 diabetes. Diabetes is more common in African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. If you are a member of one of these ethnic groups, you need to pay special attention to this test.
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