Evidence-Based Diabetes Care

EVIDENCE
1. What is Evidence?
2. What Is the Prognosis?
3. How Should Diagnostic Tests Be Chosen and Used?
4. How Should a Particular Problem Be Managed? Incorporating
Evidence about Therapies into Practice
5. Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines

DEFINITION AND IMPORTANCE OF DIABETES MELLITUS
6. What Is Diabetes?
7. Short-Term Clinical Consequences of Diabetes in Adults
8. Diagnosis and Short-Term Clinical Consequences of Diabetes in
Children and Adolescents

ETIOLOGIC CLASSIFICATION OF DIABETES
9. What Is Type I Diabetes?
10. What Is Type 2 Diabetes?
11. What Is Gestational Diabetes?

PREVENTION AND SCREENING FOR DIABETES MELLITUS
12. Early Detection and Prevention of Diabetes Mellitus

STRATEGIES FOR LOWERING GLUCOSE LEVELS
13. Education and Home Glucose Monitoring
14. Weight Loss in the Management of Type 2 Diabetes
15. Currently Available Oral Hypoglycemic Agents for Type 2
Diabetes Mellitus
16. Alternative Therapy: The Role of Selected Minerals,
Vitamins, Fiber, and Herbs in Treating Hyperglycemia
17. Insulin for Treating Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes
18. Diabetes Management During Pregnancy
19. Diabetes Management in the Elderly
20. Hypoglycemia


LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES OF DIABETES
21. Eye Disease
22. Kidney Disease
23. Peripheral Nerve Disease
24. Cardiovascular Diseases
25. Diseases of the Feet: Foot Ulcers and Amputations in People
with Diabetes Mellitus
26. Classification and Risk of Musculoskeletal Impairment
Associated with Diabetes
27. Erectile Dysfunction
28. Diabetes and the Gastrointestinal Tract

DELIVERY OF CARE
29. The Delivery of Diabetes Care