The Interdisciplinary Approach to the Implementation of a Diabetes Home Care Disease Management Program

Abstract

Diabetes is a national epidemic and a leading cause of hospitalizations in the United States. Home care agencies need to be able to provide effective Diabetes Disease Management to help prevent avoidable hospitalizations and assist patients to live a good quality of life. This article describes one organization's journey toward providing patients with better diabetes care resulting in an improved quality of life.

A review of current models for initiating injectable therapy for people with type 2 diabetes in primary care

“…Home nurses play a pivotal role in assisting with the management of diabetes and therefore may be well placed to help with the initiation of injectable therapies and provide the education and care needed [10] . Working in the home environment provides rich information on what interventions may be more effective, as health providers can ascertain the world within which their patients live [32] . Despite the obvious potential for such a model, no research has formally evaluated the initiation of injectable therapy in the home setting by home nurses or diabetes educators [22] .…”