Diabetes Best Practice Intervention Package Revised & Expanded
A new HHQI Disease Management: Diabetes Best Practice Intervention Package (BPIP) is now available for you to download. It includes numerous evidence-based strategies to assist with diabetes management including lifestyle modification and medications and is focused on evidence-based guidelines for caring for patients with type 2 diabetes. Key guidelines that are applicable to home health are included from the newest American Diabetes Association (ADA) Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes.
The package also includes short multimedia modules for both clinicians and patients. The modules are available on YouTube and are also offered as MP4 files, which makes them easy to download to both laptops and tablets so you can view and share with patients without Internet access.
The module presenter is a nationally renowned diabetes expert Natalie Tappe, who covers Diabetic Self-Management Education Programs and Benefits, Evidence-Based Foot Care, Prediabetes and more.
For more information regarding the BPIP tools, contact hhqi@wvmi.org. Please note: You must be an HHQI member to access the tools and resources offered.
The Great Plains QIN is working to improve health outcomes and reduce issues of health disparities among people with diabetes through the following:
- Assisting physician clinics in improving utilization and clinical outcome measures for HbA1c, lipid, blood pressure and weight control for Medicare consumers with diabetes
- Improving HbA1c, lipid, blood pressure and weight control outcomes for Medicare consumers with diabetes
- Decreasing the number of individuals who require lower extremity amputations due to complications resulting from poorly controlled diabetes
- Increasing Medicare consumer participation in Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME) classes
- Increasing the number of diabetes educators, Certified Diabetic Educators (CDEs) and community health workers
For more information on the services offered in our region related to diabetes care and prevention, visit our Website. Also, be sure to join our Learning and Action Network to get connected. LAN members will have access to tools, resources, education, subject matter experts and networking opportunities. All improvers welcome; join today!