There is a lot of stuff out there that can be helpful to educate patients with diabetes. It is hard sometimes to review and order materials only to find out that after you receive it that it is not appropriate for your patients. So, we at Diabetes In Control will be reviewing new materials that will usually be free of charge and let you know how you can obtain them to help educate your patients.

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28 Days To Diabetes Control
"28 Days to Diabetes Control!" is a simple, but powerful tool that can give you a new outlook on diabetes. It's by Lance Porter, editor-in-chief of "Diabetes Positive!" magazine.
Over a 4-week period, your patient will complete a series of daily worksheets, make note of meals, exercise, your insulin and medications (if they use them) - as well as the results of your blood glucose tests.
We are pleased to make the entire book available FREE online through a PDF document you can view, print or save to your PC. Just send an email to editor@diabetesincontrol.com

Diabetes Numbers Pocket Guide

Diabetes Numbers at-a-Glance (NDEP-12)
Use this handy pocket guide for a quick listing of ADA recommendations for diagnosing pre-diabetes and diabetes and for managing your patients with diabetes (updated 4/02). Single copy free.
Call 1-800-860-8747.
Print version (PDF* 60k)
Order Reference Card

Kids Tip Sheets
Tip Sheets for Children with Type 2 Diabetes
These colorful tip sheets provide basic information about type 2 diabetes and encourage young people to take steps to manage the disease for a long and healthy life. Read More

“Small Steps, Big Rewards”
Over 11 new brochures and tip sheets and logs are now available at no cost from NDEP to promote awareness of diabetes and prediabetes;
Click Here

Pocket Guide to Staying Healthy at 50+
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality today released a booklet for older adults called The Pocket Guide to Staying Healthy at 50+. This guide incorporates new research-based recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
More Information and how to order at no cost

GAME PLAN Food and Activity Tracker
One of the most successful techniques for losing weight is to write down everything you eat and drink and to figure out how many calories and fat grams you consume every day. Use this tracker to record your food and drink intake, as well as the time you spend on physical activity.
Print or order free trackers: GAME PLAN Food and Activity Tracker

The Quality of Life Test

This week’s tools for your practice comes from our publisher who recently used this form to help educate patients on what A1c results means to them. See this weeks special feature:
“How To Impact Your Patients With Diabetes In 20 Minutes”

The Dialogue Company Offers Diabetes Outlook™: A FREE Gift of Education and Better Living
Learn how to get free patient packets and why Dialogue started doing this. Click Here

Take Care Of Your Diabetes - Card
A card for your patients to help them be more proactive in their own care.
Provided by ADA.

School Foods Tool Kit

A guide to improving school foods and beverages. This kit includes goals and strategies for improving school foods and beverages as well as background materials and fact sheets on children's diets and health, school meal programs, and vending and other school food venues. Read More...

Learn How Business Can Make a Difference –
Free Report

Making a Difference: The Business Community Takes on Diabetes

Active at any Size

This informative website helps explain exercise alternatives to your larger, older patients. And we have arranged for you to order free copies of the booklet for your patients
Just visit this link here and you can fill out the form and order via fax up to 25 copies of this and other great forms at no charge

RX for Increasing Physical Activity
This week we have a sample prescription for you to use for your patients.
A prescription for increasing physical activity, check it out and use it!
More Information (PDF)

What Happened to Those New Year’s Resolutions on Exercise?
Less than a month into the new year, have you already abandoned your resolution to exercise more? Or perhaps you still intend to get started but just haven't managed to get going yet.
Jump-Start Your Physical Activity Routine with some great tips: (Print out to help get you and your patients started and help to keep going) Tips to Getting Started

Assessment and Management of Adult Obesity consists of 10 booklets that offer practical recommendations for addressing adult obesity in the primary care setting. The primer offers practical advice on...
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Physician Patient Contract
Have your patients bring this Patients First Contract to their physicians. This is part of the “Patients First” Campaign for Intensive Diabetes Self-Management developed by AACE Click Here

Whole Life:
Real Game of Life does not take place in cyberspace on the internet but is a real game of Aliens, Weapons, and a Health meter. Each time you succeed and reach a new level, you change the real world around you. Click Here

We have updated the one page patient handout to reflect the new standards
for comparing blood glucose levels and A1c’s. To check out and print the Do You Know Your Quality of Life Number: Click here:

Insulin Adjustment Travel Guide
Planning on traveling across time lines. Here is a simple guide that you can print to help your patients with insulin adjustments.
More Information

The GlucoseOne Diabetes Management System
is designed to allow for simplistic input of information related to Diabetes such as Glucose level, Carbohydrate intake, Insulin dosage and time,
Time of glucometer test, Activity levels and Blood pressure, and best of all it is free. To get yours or learn more click here.

Fast Food Facts
This week Chili’s and Skyline Chili.
We have also put all our restaurant facts in an easy to print alphabetic PDF file.
For a complete updated list of foods featured so far visit here

Sisters on the Go!
Move until you sweat. Even if it costs you your 'do.'
More than 60 percent of black women are overweight. Many black women will not exercise because of their hair. 'You're not going to get anywhere talking about physical exercise in the black community unless you talk about hair.'
For More Information and a Free Brochure “Sisters on the Move”

Fast Food Facts
This week Taco Bell and Subway.
We have also put all our restaurant facts in an easy to print alphabetic PDF file.
For a complete list of foods featured so far. Click here.

Weight and Inches loss measuring chart.
Our patients often get frustrated with their attempts to reduce weight and give up. This chart helps them to see that inches are as important as weight.
Click here to get your copy for patients.

With all the concern over Childhood Obesity and Diabetes you can figure out BMI and print growth charts as well as get advice on helping kids to better fitness check out
Keeping Kids Healthy

Recipes for Better Living..
most food recipes for diabetes patients are either dull or to hard to make. These easy to make “fancy” foods will be a treat to everyone.
Click Here

The ABCDEFGHI’s of Diabetes
We have talked about knowing the ABC’s of Diabetes, A1c, Blood Pressure and Cholesterol, but now we need to expand it to know your ABCDEFGHI’s of Diabetes. Print this out and give to every one of your diabetes patients, it will save some lives. This is a pdf file, just click and print!
The ABCDEFGHI’s of Diabetes

Management of Hypertension in Diabetes
Management of Hypertension in Diabetes, a free one-hour CE.
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Due to the overwhelming response to our information on Diachrome (chromium picolinate and biotin) we have convinced the manufacturer “Nutrition 21” to supply you, our medical professional readers, with samples for personal or patient use.
Click here to learn how to get them.

Diabetes: Know the Heart Part”
The Diabetes: Know the Heart Part kit includes a PowerPoint presentation and CD-Rom, Discussion Guide and 25 Diabetes: Know the Heart Part patient brochures.
To get your Free Kit:
Click Here

“Better Diabetes Care”
The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) developed this resource as a practical tool to help health care professionals make a difference in the way diabetes is prevented and treated. The NDEP's team of diabetes experts asserts that systems change is essential in order to provide the type of evidence-based patient-centered care needed to effectively manage diabetes and prevent the serious complications associated with this serious disease. This site provides models, links, resources and tools to help the professional: Take the Tour.
Click Here

Diabetes Education Abstracts From IDF (International Diabetes Federation)
Stay informed about what's happening around the world in diabetes education. Here you can read the best of the best education presentations from the IDF Congress. A few of the 15 abstracts available: Questionnaires for the Evaluation of Learning, Techniques for Facilitating Self Care in People with Diabetes, Standardizing Outcomes for Diabetes Education, Evidence of Effectiveness of Diabetes Education, Behavioral Strategies for Overcoming Roadblocks to Diabetes Self-care and more.
(Diabetes In Control is a Member in IDF) Diabetes Education Abstracts

Link for Life: an interactive program on diabetes and heart disease. Ready to learn how you can reduce your risk for heart attacks and stroke?  http://www.diabetes.org/main/info/link.jsp 

Standards of Care Patient Handouts:  26 Patient handouts for every aspect of diabetes education and management,  Click Here

Start Your Own Step Study Program. http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/programs/steps/index.shtml

Patient Fact Sheets. 28 Individual Patient Fact Sheets for you to print out. http://www.diabetesatwork.org/factsheets.htm

Diabetes Self-Management Patient Handout. National Diabetes Education Initiative produced this simple-to-use booklet, which is a worksheet for healthcare professionals to provide to their patients. http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/PatientWorksheet.pdf

Fast Food Carb Counter. Help your patients eat out better  Click Here

DIABETIC MACULOPATHY What is it and how does it occur. http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/tools/i135.shtml

The SHIM Test –The Sexual Health Inventory for Men.  This tool is a diagnostic questionnaire designed to help you and your patients identify if they are experiencing ED. http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/SHIMTest.pdf

 

Ten Reasons Why Adult Patients with Diabetes Need To Exercise Patient pass-out to help your patients start to exercise. http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/tools/i138.shtml

 

National Diabetes Education Program, is a call to action for business leaders to become involved in workplace and community activities to control diabetes-related complications. http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/tools/i136.shtml

Handle With Care: How To Throw Out Used Insulin Syringes and Lancets at Home, is a colorful booklet for young people and their families from the US Environmental Protection Agency Click Here

Diabetes Educators Make a Difference” FREE diabetes-management tools, CE’s and more from GlaxoSmithKline. http://www.desmatter.com/

Diabetes: Kids and Type 2......What it may mean to you! A handout to give to all your patients, customers, and clients who have Children. Click Here

SHIPS: (State Health Insurance Counseling and Assistance Programs) These pro­grams provide free insurance help and information in person or by phone to people on Medicare and to their caregivers.  http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/tools/ship.shtml 

An UPDATED Action Plan. This page provides Goals and reasons to control Blood Sugars. Click Here

Guidelines for the Care of Students with Diabetes. This excellent guide can serve as a starting point for school systems interested in establishing a diabetes program. Click Here

USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference. The database lists 117 nutrient categories for more than 6,000 foods.  http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/SR15/sr15.html

Sweet Success is a complete program for Gestational Diabetes. http://www.sweetsuccessexpress.com/

Take Time to Care...About Diabetes. The New National effort to educate women about their risks of diabetes. Click Here

Kidney Disease Website offers educators, physicians and patients access to information about chronic kidney disease and its associated conditions. The interactive site contains educational materials. http://www.beactive.info/

Professional Training Programs.

Free Diabetes-Cardiovascular Disease Toolkit


CD contains over 26 reproducible patient handouts. Help your patients break the link between diabetes and CVD. Order this free tool kit today. Call 1-800-DIABETES (342-2383), or email AskADA@diabetes.org and tell them whether you want the tool kit in hard copy or CD-ROM. Click here to get the Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Toolkit, which contains reproducible patient education handouts to use in your practice

Camps for Children with Diabetes

Diabetes camp is one of the best experiences that a child with diabetes can have. Camp is a place to learn self-confidence, independence from mom and dad, to be with other kids with diabetes, and simply to have a great time. It's also an excellent opportunity for mom and dad to take a break from diabetes. Almost all camps provide financial assistance to kids who are unable to pay the full camp fees.
To see the most complete list of camps go here

This is the one location that you can find studies for your patients to participate in. Many studies have multiple city locations and this site lists them all.

http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/

Diabetes Education Patient Tutorial
A complete diabetes education interactive multimedia tutorial with state-of-the-art technology. Presented by the National Library of Health and The Patient Education Institute. To view program click here:

A Nanogram That Predicts Disability in Adults with Diabetes
Learn which of your patients with diabetes have a greater risk for physical disability over the next 12-18 months. The nanogram will help you determine which patients are good candidates for more intensive diabetes management and risk factor modification.
Thanks to AMGA (American Medical Group Association) for sharing this information with us.
Diabetes Risk of Disability Nomograms

Diabetes Dialogue
Diabetes Dialogue 2003 is a global conference reviewing the latest developments in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. The goal of the conference is to facilitate a dialogue between the best minds in clinical practice and diabetes research, focusing on the challenge of finding better treatments for diabetes in the future. More info and view the live presentations.
Click Here

International Curriculum for Diabetes Health Professional Education is a complete curriculum of 6 modules that will facilitate the training of health professionals from a variety of disciplines and at different levels, allowing them to provide the highest quality of diabetes education and care relevant to local needs and resources.

http://www.idf.org/home/index.cfm?node=513  

CE for PA’s, Dietitians and Nurses. The physiology of calcium metabolism and its relationship to obesity, and therefore prevention and management of diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. Click Here  

On Line Programs and Software 

If you have patients that use handheld PDA’s, then UTrackSys.com LLC new, UTS Diabetes 1.2 for Palm OS handheld computers is what they need.

The new software provides the complete way of diabetes management with PDA. It keeps track of blood glucose level, insulin injections, carbohydrates consumed and various medication intakes. Best of all your patients can e-mail diabetes reports to the doctor or educator right from the Palm. It also has a Windows conduit to export the data onto a desktop PC or laptop to view in MS Excel.
Send your patients to this link to download a free copy.

Virtual Kitchen

We understand how challenging it can be for your patients to develop a proper meal plan, and to buy nonprescription drugs and other pharmacy products. Ascencia® has developed this useful tool to help educate them in a fun and engaging manner. Just go here and click on What's in My Cabinet?(half way down the page). Select kitchen and you can build a virtual meal based on calories and carbs. This tool helps you count the number of carbohydrates and calories you eat in one day while planning a menu of 3 meals.

Diabetic Cooking a Free six-month subscription
If you are using Lantus, you can get a free six-month subscription to Diabetic Cooking.
Each issue of Diabetic Cooking is packed with delicious and satisfying recipes that meet the needs of a diabetic diet, helpful cooking tips, wonderful color photos, and much more.
For more information email us

Diabetes Management Tools from Actos
This site has a weight loss plan, activity plan, meal plan and a travel check list plus much more. Great site for your patients to check out.

For online, interactive clinical and diagnostic tools, including hundreds of patient handouts, a complete medical library, free CE and much more go to www.merckmedicus.com

Find out how the drug you are taking compares with similar drugs.
Either select the health condition that this drug is used to treat or type at least the first three letters of the drug name, then click Search. Drug Comparison Or Click Here:

NDEP Offers New Educational Resources for Patients, Providers
Ginger Kanzer Lewis stated, “Hundreds of volunteers work in committees to put together these amazing materials, all available to you free of charge. I encourage you to take advantage of it.” More Information

GlucoControl is a Free PDA software (Pocket PC), that helps to control the glucose levels in blood, it replaces the classic diabetes notebook.
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New WebSite for the NIDDK clearinghouse. The site includes links to a new online publications catalog, so you can order NIDDK materials 24 hours a day. You can order single free copies of most materials or place a bulk order. A lot of great information and materials for your patients. Check it out at diabetes.niddk.nih.gov”The Virtual Grocery Store”
Open the doors to our Virtual Grocery Store and learn about healthy food choices and meal planning. More...>

BD announces their new web site. BDdiabetes.com to go hand in hand with their new Diabetes Management Systems. We especially like the page here where you can download and print educational literature in both English and Spanish. You can go to the site to learn more about the new BD Latitude™ Diabetes Management System for insulin pen users. It is ideal for people who want to test their blood sugar frequently. It displays results in just 5 seconds, with much less pain. Convenient “all in one” design brings together in one place all of the tools people need to test and inject. Records insulin doses as well as blood glucose test results.

GLUCOGAMES is an free incentive-based rewards program for those people who have diabetes. By automatically acquiring the history of glucose testing data contained within the patient's blood glucose meter's memory, redemption points are awarded by averaging the frequency and level of one's blood glucose test results. These redemption points are stored within the user's account profile and can be redeemed at anytime for different types of rewards.
Gluco Games is supported by Medisense, LifeScan, Therasense and Bayer. Check it out at GlucoGames

GlucoControl is a Free PDA program (Pocket PC), that helps to control the glucose levels in blood, it replaces the classic diabetes notebook http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/tools/i154.shtml 

Pump Expeditions is the first simulation game developed for kids and adults who are curious about insulin pump therapy http://www.pumpexpeditions.com/ 

Here is a simple Calculator to determine BMI Click Here  

Meal/Glucose Effect Calculator. This calculator will give you an estimate of the effect any combination of foods you eat at one sitting will have on your blood glucose level over time. http://www.mangesius.com/Calculators/index.asp 

Free Monofilaments/Video  Every Patient should be given a monofilament and educated on how to use at home. The LEAP FILAMENT can be used for teaching or for clinical use. You may request a supply of 50 or less of these filaments by filling out the Free Monofilament Form http://bphc.hrsa.gov/leap/ordering_leap_filaments.htm