Diabetes : Improving Patient Care.

Diabetes : Improving Patient Care.

Over 20 million people in the United States have diabetes, a metabolic disorder characterized by the body's lack of production or ineffective use of insulin, and the rate is on the rise. Diabetes can cause acute, as well as long-term complications when not properly controlled. Some of the compl...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press, USA 2010.
Series:Oxford American endocrinology library.
Subjects:
Diabetes > Treatment.
Diabetes > Treatment
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Table of Contents:
  • Meeting goals in diabetes : why and how
  • The office visit : setting the goals
  • Pharmacological treatment of type 2 diabetes
  • Insulin therapy in ambulatory patients with type 2 diabetes
  • Diabetes complications
  • Facilitating motivation for self-care in patients with diabetes
  • Diet recommendations and patient education
  • Insulin therapy in hospitalized patients with diabetes mellitus.

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