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Health Care ProvidersThe "Diabetes Detection Initiative: Finding the Undiagnosed" is a diabetes detection program that utilizes health education/communication and community health interventions to increase the number of at-risk individuals that undergo a risk assessment and if appropriate, receive blood testing to determine if they have diabetes and necessary follow-up. Appropriate information about risk reduction will also be given to individuals who are identified with pre-diabetes or considered to be high-risk. Scientific and clinical studies have demonstrated that if diabetes is well managed, the potentially devastating complications of this disease can be prevented or delayed. However, diabetes must first be diagnosed to be effectively treated and managed. Thus it is critically important to identify the millions of people with unrecognized diabetes earlier in the course of the disease so that they can benefit from earlier interventions to reduce both the microvascular and macrovascular diseases that can occur from diabetes. This early identification has the potential to reduce morbidity and mortality, improve quality of life, and lower the financial costs to individuals and society that result from diabetes complications. Risk Assessment - Information for Health Providers: Steps to Finding the Undiagnosed Assessing RiskStep One: Patients will have taken a paper and pencil risk test.
(Adapted from Diabetes Care 1995; 18:382-7 and the American Diabetes Association www.diabetes.org)
Interactive WorksheetInteractive worksheet. (Adapted from Diabetes Care 2002: 25 1999-2003) A single casual plasma glucose ≥200 mg/dl with unequivocal symptoms of diabetes OR In the absence of unequivocal diabetes symptoms: Repeat measure on a different day to confirm diagnosis is necessary. Information About Diabetes Links to clinical practice
tools, patient education materials and additional diabetes websites. More> About Pre-diabetesThe National Diabetes Education Program, an initiative of the Steps to a Healthier US program, is pleased to provide you with a Small Steps. Big Rewards. Your GAME PLAN to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes toolkit. The kit includes a "decision pathway" to help you diagnose diabetes, provides information on the respective value of Fasting Plasma Glucose (FPG) and Oral Glucose Tolerance Tests (OGTT) and other background information. Get the Toolkit* (PDF 1MB). The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is pleased to provide you with a primer on Medicare programs that can assist you in reimbursement for blood glucose testing.
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