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• AADE7 System

  Cost Associated

  This online software package for diabetes educators allows you to collect and track your patients' behavior change goals, clinical indicators, and medications; administer online patient self-assessments and follow-ups; track information about the educational services you provide; generate reports on individual patient progress and your facility's progress; and more.

  American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE)

• ACP Diabetes Care Guide

  Registration Required

  This guide helps health care professionals improve care delivered to patients with diabetes across the entire spectrum—from prevention, screening and initial diagnosis to care of the hospitalized patient.  Includes tools and information to help patients manage their diabetes and make positive lifestyle changes.

  American College of Physicians (ACP)

• Assessment and Management of Adult Obesity

  This obesity primer consists of 10 booklets that address adult obesity in the primary care setting.  It offers practical recommendations on evaluating patients for health risks related to weight, understanding medication and surgical options, improving communication and counseling, and making office environments more accommodating to obese patients.

  American Medical Association (AMA)

• Behavior Change Suite

  Cost Associated

  The Behavior Change Suite proprietary technology framework supports complex, clinically-directed web and mobile behavior change interventions and patient self-management support applications to effectively serve your patients' needs.

  DPS Health

• Behaviour Change at Population, Community, and Individual Levels

  This guide provides a set of generic principles that can be used as the basis for planning, delivering, and evaluating public health activities aimed at changing health-related behaviors.

  National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)

• CalorieKing

  Cost Associated

  Registration Required

  This website is a comprehensive guide to weight management that helps you track your diet and change your habits.  In addition to its database of 70,000 foods, CalorieKing offers a food and exercise diary, practical help and tips, step-by-step guidance, interactive goal setting, and motivation and support from the CalorieKing community.  A program for physicians is also available.

  CalorieKing

• DAWN Dialogue Tools

  These validated patient survey tools work to assess patient and health care professional attitudes, wishes, and needs in diabetes management, a vital and valuable part of patient-centred quality of care improvement.

  DAWN (Diabetes Attitutes, Wishes, and Needs) Study

• Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Provider Reference Guide

  This guide for health care professionals provides comprehensive diabetes information on prevention and control and cardiovascular disease.

  California Medical Association Foundation

• Diabetes Initiative

  This website provides access to program models, tools, and resources to enable health care professionals to provide self-management support for adults with diabetes in real world clinical and community settings. En español

  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

• Diabetes Prevention Program Study Documents

  These handouts provide facilitators with tools to implement the DPP intervention using strategies to achieve nutrition, physical activity and weight loss goals. En español

  Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP)

• EmPower

  This website provides checklists, daily tips to manage diabetes, videos, and stories from others dealing with diabetes.

  American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) and American College of Endocrinology (ACE)

• Facilitating Behavior Change

  Cost Associated

  Registration Required

  This online course addresses the challenges today’s diabetes educators face and provides a solid foundation of core knowledge that diabetes educators need to update or refine their skills, as well as strategies to deliver appropriate self-management training to their patients with diabetes.

  American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE)

• Group Lifestyle Balance

  Cost Associated

  Registration Required

  The evidence-based Group Lifestyle Balance program is designed to help patients make lifestyle changes which can prevent diabetes and prevent or treat metabolic syndrome. This program provides education, encouragement and the tools necessary to help individuals reach their healthy lifestyle goals and is designed for non–diabetic, overweight individuals age 18 and older who have pre–diabetes and/or the metabolic syndrome.

  University of Pittsburgh Diabetes Prevention Support Center

• Group Visit Starter Kit

  Registration Required

  This kit contains resources for health care teams that want to begin offering group visits for their patients.  Group visits offer staff a new and more satisfying way to interact with patients that makes efficient use of resources, improves access, and uses group process to help motivate behavior change and improve outcomes.

  Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

• Guide to Stages of Change Interventions

  This guide details the steps to using change interventions with diabetes patients to move them toward disease self-management. En español

  California Diabetes Program

• Guide to Stages of Change Interventions

  This brochure for health care professionals details the steps to using change interventions with diabetes patients to move them toward disease self-management. En español

  California Diabetes Program

• Health Literacy Video

  This video for physicians helps raise awareness and start discussions about patients’ low health literacy skills.

  American Medical Association (AMA)

• Living a Balanced Life with Diabetes: A Toolkit Addressing Psychosocial Issues for American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples

  Living a Balanced Life with Diabetes: A Toolkit Addressing Psychosocial Issues for American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples can help health care professionals address psychosocial issues with American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples. The toolkit contains a variety of culturally appropriate materials.

  National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)

• Motivating Healthy Behaviors

  This 10-minute podcast for health care professionals provides tips for motivating patients to make and sustain lifestyle changes.

  American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

• Overcoming Barriers to Better Fitness

  This podcast offers strategies for addressing patient and practice obstacles related to overweight and obesity issues.  CME credits available.

  American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

• Partnering in Self-Management Support

  This resource provides health care professionals with a set of tested resources and tools to share with patients and families in the day-to-day management of chronic conditions.

  Improving Chronic Illness Care

• Patient-Centered Approaches to Better Fitness

  This 21-minute podcast for health care professionals will help you learn new strategies to effectively talk to patients about nutrition, physical activity and emotional well-being.

  American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

• PRESENT Diabetes

  These prerecorded lectures from experts in the field of diabetes cover topics ranging from prediabetes to foot care to diabetic emergencies.

  PRESENT Diabetes

• Self-Management Support Training Materials

  This list of self-management support training materials provides health care professionals with strategies and patient tools to help patients adopt healthy behaviors.

  California HealthCare Foundation

• The Road to Health Toolkit

  This toolkit provides materials to begin a community outreach program with African Americans and Hispanics/Latinos at risk for type 2 diabetes, reinforcing the message that type 2 diabetes can be delayed or prevented.  CME credit available. En español

  National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)