Endocrine Insider
January 8, 2009

The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) has revised one if its most comprehensive documents on diabetes care, the Guiding Principles for Diabetes Care: For Health Care Professionals. In his role as The Endocrine Society's liaison to the NDEP Steering Committee and a member of NDEP's Health Care Professionals Workgroup, Julio Rosenstock, MD, worked on the revisions.

Originally published in 2004, Guiding Principles for Diabetes Care: For Health Care Professionals provides an overview of the key elements of early and intensive clinical diabetes care and prevention. The newer version contains updated statistics on the risk factors for diabetes, screening recommendations, A1c levels, and data from recent glucose monitoring trials. The revised document also lists a bevy of diabetes management and prevention resources such as the NDEP campaigns Control Your Diabetes for Life and Small Steps. Big Rewards and the new tools available at www.DiabetesAtWork.org.

The final Guiding Principles for Diabetes Care: For Health Care Professionals is expected to be published in February 2009 and will be available electronically on the NDEP website at: http://www.ndep.nih.gov/

For additional information on diabetes care, creating a patient registry, assessing practice needs, connecting to community resources and other diabetes evaluation and management tools, visit www.BetterDiabetesCare.nih.gov, a website designed by NDEP to educate health care professionals about the need for systems changes and ways to implement them.