Enabling Tools

Updated: 8.5.2008

For Better Practice - Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (Diabetes)

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.



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For Better Practice - Standing Orders

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

Customize a list of standing orders for your patients with diabetes and then print your customized version.



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For Better Practice - Diabetes Care Flow Sheet

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

Keep track of key examination findings for every visit.



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For Better Practice - Diabetes History and Self-Management Checklist

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

This tool will help you assess your patients_ awareness and appreciation of many aspects of self-care.



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For Better Practice - Diabetes Eye Examination Report

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

Arrange to have this form completed when your patient visits the ophthalmologist.



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For Better Practice - Drugs for Primary or Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular and Kidney Disease Checklist

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

This tool lists what to consider before providing patients with these medications.



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For Better Practice - Implementing Clinical Guidelines

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

Use this tool to assign team member responsibilities to help implement clinical guidelines.



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For Better Health - Your Self-Management Workbook

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

A workbook patients can use to document the steps they take toward better health.



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For Better Practice - Your Self-Management Workbook: Guide for Clinicians

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

What to consider before asking patients to use the Self-Management Workbook.



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For Better Health - Identifying Your Concerns

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

This questionnaire can help patients identify their concerns before they visit your practice.



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For Better Practice - Identifying Your Concerns: Guide for Clinicians

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

This tool helps you identify, assess, and respond to your patients concerns.



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For Better Health - Taking Care of Your Feet

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

Instructions for proper foot care that all patients with diabetes should follow.



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For Better Practice - Sensory Foot Exam Findings

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

This illustrated worksheet enables you to record the results of filament tests for 10 visits.



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Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) Calculator

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

Use this calculator tool to determine a Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR).



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Target Heart Rate (THR) Calculator

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

Use this calculator tool to determine a Target Heart Rate (THR).



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For Better Health - Setting Your Self-Management Goal

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

This tool helps patients identify goals, challenges, and strategies.



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For Better Health - Rate Your Plate

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

This easy-to-use tool will help patients assess the nutritional value of their meals.



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For Better Health - Eating Right

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

Guidelines patients can follow to make healthy eating choices.



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For Better Health - Practical Exercise Plan

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

Tips that can help sedentary patients adopt a more active lifestyle.



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For Better Health - Your Aerobic Exercise Plan

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

A prescription form to provide patients with personalized guidelines for the aerobic exercise they have chosen.



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For Better Health - Monitoring Your Blood Sugar

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

A checklist to help patients monitor their blood glucose regularly.



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For Better Health - Keeping Track of Your Pills

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

A checklist to help patients manage their medications.



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For Better Health - Your Wallet-Sized Medical Record

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

A form to help patients keep important information handy at all times.



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For Better Health - Getting Started with Insulin

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

Practical tips for patients who are beginning insulin therapy.



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Body Mass Index (BMI) Calculator

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

This tool will help calculate patient body mass index (BMI).



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For Better Health - Your Diabetes Test Record

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

A form for patients to record their test results and keep track of their progress.



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For Better Health - The ABCs to Better Diabetes Care

From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide

What patients need to know about monitoring, exercise, self-management, and preventive care, on one page.



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Patient Education Videos

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.



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Patient Registries Tutorial - Overview

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.



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Patient Registry Tutorial - Product Selector

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.



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Patient Registries Tutorial - Simulation, Case Study

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.



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ACP Clinical Skills Module > Diabetic Foot Ulcers > How to Perform a Foot Sensory Examination

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.



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ACP Clinical Skills Module > Diabetic Foot Ulcers > Foot Care Questionnaire

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.



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ACP Clinical Skills Module > Diabetic Foot Ulcers > High Risk Chart Stickers

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.



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ACP Clinical Skills Module > Diabetic Foot Ulcers > Certification Statement and Prescription Form for Therapeutic Footware

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.



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ACP PQRI Coding Tool (from the PMC)

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.



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PIER: Quality Measures Tool > Diabetes

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.



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ACP Diabetes Care Guide > Diabetes Resources

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.



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ADA's Diabetes PHD Risk Assessment Tool

Diabetes PHD (Personal Health Decisions), from the American Diabetes Association (ADA), 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.



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ADA's Simple Diabetes Risk Test

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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