The patient education materials have been organized into clinical focus areas so that teaching can be customized to each patient.
To avoid overwhelming patients with too much information, it is recommended that health care team members give patients the fact sheets as they are needed, limiting information to just the key concepts or behaviors needed for improved self-management.
One approach is to bundle the resources by key concepts of self-management and use them for focused visits. For example, a patient starting insulin would benefit from the medication bundle pertaining to insulin management. Three suggested bundles of resources are included below.
There is also an index of patient education handouts organized by topic. It is intended to be a resource for the diabetes educator to select “à la carte” the topics most helpful at the time of the visit. The title of each document below is a direct link to the patient education handout. The handouts can be downloaded and printed locally at your clinical site.