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Diabetes: Everyone’s Number One Priority

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Diabetes tops most clinicians’ list of most challenging conditions to treat, largely due to the complexity and clinical fluidity of its treatment targets; the overlap of its clinical implications onto other medical conditions such as vascular, renal, ophthalmologic, and neurologic diseases; and the need to extend treatments beyond mere medication prescription into the challenging realm of patient self-management training and lifestyle changes.

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    Four Clinical Centers have structured PI-CME activities. As of September 2010, Type 2 Diabetes: Improving Office Systems of Care and Insulin Therapy are approved through the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Approved Quality Improvement (AQI) Pathway and are eligible for 20 points toward the Self-Evaluation of Practice Performance requirement of Maintenance of Certification (MOC). The remaining two activities are in the submission process at this writing.

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  1. Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Richard S. Beaser MD, Kenneth Snow MD, Jo-Anne M. Rizzotto MEd, RD, LDN, CDE, Julie Brown CCMEP & Martin J. Abrahamson MD, FACP

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Beaser, R.S., Snow, K., Rizzotto, JA.M., Brown, J., Abrahamson, M.J. (2012). Diabetes: Everyone’s Number One Priority. In: Harrington, J., Newman, E. (eds) Great Health Care. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1198-7_13

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