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Nutra Solutions
September 1, 2005 |
Dairy Dupes Diabetes Researchers examined the relation between dairy intake and incident cases of type 2 diabetes in 41,254 male participants with no history of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer at baseline in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study.   |
Managed Care
June 2003
Alison Johnson |
Measuring DM's Net Effect Is Harder Than You Might Think Disease management is God's gift to managed care. Or is it? Here is a discussion of areas that make evaluating a DM program a complex, if not ineffable, proposition. |
American Family Physician
October 15, 2005
Coleman & Newton |
Supporting Self-Management in Patients with Chronic Illness Family physicians can support patient self-management by structuring patient-physician interactions to identify problems from the patient perspective, making office environment changes that remove self-management barriers, and providing education individually and through available community self-management resources. |
Nursing Management
March 2010
Becker & Schmidtke |
All along the watchtower: Suicide risk screening, a pilot study Patients will continue to die if healthcare organizations don't take action and appropriately assess patients at risk for suicide in general hospitals. |
Nurse Practitioner
October 2010
Hill & Appel |
Diagnosing Diabetes with A1C: Implications and Considerations for Measurement and Surrogate Markers Now that the ADA has officially positioned the assay as a means of diagnosis and monitoring, it is another tool NPs must access properly when helping patients manage diabetes and treatment. |
Managed Care
March 2001 |
A Comparison of Diabetes Patients' Self-Reported Health Status With Hemoglobin A1c Test Results There were substantive differences noted between diabetes patients' self-reported health status, their level of satisfaction with the care they received, and the actual care they received... |
Nursing Management
January 2012
Lawrence et al. |
Type 2 Diabetes: Growing to Epic Proportions Affecting all age groups and all aspects of a person's life, diabetes is a major public health issue worldwide, requiring lifelong behavioral and lifestyle changes and support. |
Managed Care
November 2006
Nagel et al. |
Implementing Disease Management Programs for Type 2 Diabetes in Germany Germany has been able to enroll more than a million people with type 2 diabetes in disease management programs through legislation that created incentives for physicians and insurers. |
American Family Physician
November 1, 2000 |
Diabetes: How Do I Know if I Have it? Diabetes is a disease that occurs when your body doesn't make enough of a hormone called insulin, or if your body doesn't use insulin the right way. If left untreated, it may result in blindness, heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure and amputations... |
American Family Physician
October 15, 2003
Gavin et al. |
Reducing Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes By increasing patient awareness of the link between diabetes and heart disease, family physicians can encourage patients to take medications (including aspirin), stop smoking, lower blood pressure, and lower cholesterol and blood glucose levels. |
Managed Care
May 2006
Martin Sipkoff |
Health Plans Are Ill-Prepared for Looming Diabetes Epidemic The problem is outpacing insurers' resources and perhaps even their commitment. Can the chronic care model help? |
Pharmaceutical Executive
August 1, 2008
Gayle Lorenzi et al. |
Spanning the Treatment Gap How a diabetes field team helped docs overcome the treatment gap. |
BusinessWeek
February 4, 2010 |
How Disease Management Works Providers have convinced many big employers that their services save money and improve employee health. |
Managed Care
May 2007
Rachel M. Renshaw |
Keys to Diabetes Control? Patience, Persistence, and Perseverance Careful attention to a comprehensive treatment plan could forestall or prevent the need to add drugs and costs to a patient's regimen. |
American Family Physician
October 15, 2000
Matthew Neff |
Conference Highlights Lifestyle Modifications Can Prevent Onset of Type 2 Diabetes... Efficacy of Metformin Is Similar in Children and Adults... Glycemic Control Improves Quality of Life in Patients with Diabetes... Test Strip Proves Effective, Less Painful Alternative to Fingerstick... |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 17, 2003
Martha Lagace |
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management Diabetes is a tough disease to tackle. A case-study discussion led by Harvard professor Nancy Beaulieu asked why it is so complex for business and society, and what might be done to curb its incidence. |
Nursing
September 2010
Margaret M. Bolton |
Sounding the alarm about metabolic syndrome Any health problem that affects a third of American adults is sure to impact your nursing practice. Metabolic syndrome, a growing and commonly silent condition, poses a significant public health crisis. |
American Family Physician
January 15, 2004
Koenigsberg et al. |
Facilitating Treatment Adherence with Lifestyle Changes in Diabetes Healthy eating and increased physical activity can prevent or delay diabetes and its complications. Techniques that facilitate adherence to these lifestyle changes can be adapted to primary care. |
Managed Care
April 2005 |
Diabetes Costs Rise, But so Does Adherence A typical health plan can expect endocrine and diabetes agents to amount to 6% to 8% of total utilization costs, with spending on these agents to increase between 11% and 15% 2005. |
Managed Care
February 2001
Michael S. Victoroff |
Helping Patients Make Informed Decisions Now Harder Thanks to Range of Treatment The duty of informed consent necessitates that physicians discuss with their patients the realistic expectations and risks associated with treatment. When no protocol shows a distinct advantage, there is no duty to inform, which creates an ethical problem for physicians... |
American Family Physician
October 1, 2002
Konzem et al. |
Controlling Hypertension in Patients with Diabetes Hypertension and diabetes mellitus are common diseases in the United States. Patients with diabetes have a much higher rate of hypertension than would be expected in the general population. Regardless of the antihypertensive agent used, a reduction in blood pressure helps to prevent diabetic complications. |
AskMen.com
April 29, 2001
Joshua Levine |
Do You Have Diabetes? Diabetes is not contagious; people cannot "catch" it from one another. However, certain factors can increase one's risk of developing the disease... |
Managed Care
January 2008 |
Utilization Slowed by Switch From Copayment to Coinsurance Switching from a copayment benefit design to a coinsurance benefit design slowed the growth of total per-member per-month (PMPM) expenditures for all drug classes but did not have a significant effect on overall PMPM utilization. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
May 1, 2009
Jay Bigelow |
Behavior and the Bottom Line In an era of shrinking marketing budgets, increase ROI with behavioral science-based marketing. |
Managed Care
February 2004 |
Improving Oral Pharmacologic Treatment And Management of Type 2 Diabetes New oral treatment options and outcome measures may help patients with type 2 diabetes to achieve better results while reducing associated costs. |
Managed Care
October 2000 |
Diabetes Cases Up 33 Percent In Just 8 Years In findings that are likely to have serious implications for treatment-costs, adult incidence of diabetes rose 33 percent from 1990 to 1998, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control... |
