Here’s what you’ll find in the toolkit:

Engage Health Care Teams

You can prevent type 2 diabetes

This fact sheet provides a brief overview of the evidence-based diabetes prevention program and a rationale for engaging with the program. It also assists clinicians in advocating to their colleagues about the value of incorporating diabetes prevention screening and referral into their practices.

The Evidence behind the diabetes prevention program

This fact sheet provides short summaries of studies conducted over the last 15 years, creating the evidence base for the prevention of diabetes through lifestyle change interventions.

Engage Patients

Diabetes Risk Assessment

This questionnaire offers patients the opportunity to learn about their risk for prediabetes while helping care teams identify patients at great risk.

Promoting prediabetes awareness to your patients

This poster will help practices increase patient awareness of prediabetes and pave the way for conversations with patients about screening, testing and referral.

Are you at risk for type 2 diabetes?

This patient handout is for use in waiting areas to increase awareness and pave the way for conversations about screening, testing and referral.

So you have prediabetes … now what?

This patient handout is for use by physician practices in the exam room after screening has revealed that a patient has prediabetes. Helps the patient leave the office visit with concrete information for later reference.

Sample Patient letter/email and phone script

This letter/email template enables physician practices to conduct efficient follow-up and referral with patients who have prediabetes and for whom referral to a diabetes prevention program is an option.

Incorporate screening, testing and referral into your practice

M.A.P. to diabetes prevention for your practice

Offers a roadmap to applying the elements of the diabetes prevention identification and referral guide.

Patient flow process

This infographic provides a high-level overview of how office staff can facilitate point-of-care identification.

Point-of-care prediabetes identification algorithm

This infographic offers practices an option to adapt/incorporate a prediabetes identification and referral process into their workflow.

Retrospective prediabetes identification algorithm

This infographic offers practices an option to adapt/ incorporate an identification and referral process into their electronic health records and generate a registry of patients at risk for type 2 diabetes.

Sample patient referral form/table for calculating body mass index

Makes the referral process easier for practices, helps engage the patient and prepares diabetes prevention program providers to engage with the patient as well.

Commonly used Current Procedural Terminology and ICD codes

Enables physician practices to obtain reimbursement for prediabetes screening.

Additional resources

Link to sample Business Associate Agreement

The AMA provides additional resources that may be helpful in connecting with diabetes prevention programs.