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Primary care providers: Physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or other professionals who provide clinical care for people with diabetes.

If you:

• Want to review the reasons why systems changes are important, go to Introduction, Needs and Evidence Based Decision-Making
• Are ready to make changes, go to Identifying Gaps
• Have system and organizational issues, go to Information Systems and Models of Care
• Want some models and guidelines, go to Models of Care and Patient-Centered Care
• Have hit some obstacles in your way, go to Issues and Evaluation
• Need tools to put plans into action, go to Patient-Centered Care and Toolbox
• Are ready to evaluate your progress, go to Evaluation

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If you:

• Need to propose system changes to top administrators, go to Identifying Gaps and Team Care
• Need to persuade your department to support your decisions, go to Team Care, Resistance to Change and Assessment and Management
• Want some examples to follow, go to Models of Care
• Want various departments to work together better, go to Team Care and Payment policies

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Specialists: A specialist who treats the complications caused by diabetes such as an endocrinologist, a podiatrist, neurologist, opthalmologist, cardiologist, pharmacist, optometrist, or dentist.

If you:

• Want to improve your level of patient care, go to Patient-Centered Care
• Want to see models of care, go to Models of Care, Team Care, Payment Policies
• Want to address billing and payment policies, go to Payment Policies

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If you:

• Need to train staff on new patient centered care policies, go to Patient-Centered Care and Cultural Sensitivity and Resistance to Change, Management and Clinical Tools
• Want to evaluate how patients are perceiving your system, go to Measuring Change Tools
• Need patient education materials, go to Patient-Centered Care and Clinical Tools
• Want to measure progress, go to Evaluation and Assessment

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