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How the EHR can help ID, refer patients for diabetes prevention

Family physicians at Duke Health take two approaches to identify and refer patients with prediabetes to a lifestyle-change program.

Prevention & Wellness
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Startup brings connectivity, convenience to diabetes prevention

This Silicon Valley company is expanding efforts to eliminate bottlenecks that hamper patients’ ability to access proven lifestyle-change programs.

Prevention & Wellness
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8 terms every physician should know about prediabetes

Learn about diabetes prevention programs, the M.A.P. framework and other key terms all physicians should know about prediabetes.

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Terms Every Doctor Should Know
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How to successfully offer diabetes prevention at a distance

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a health system in North Carolina quickly shifted to distance learning to continue to reach people with prediabetes. Here’s how.

Prevention & Wellness
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Amid pandemic, diabetes prevention goes virtual in North Carolina

Learn about this ambitious effort from the AMA and North Carolina Medical Society to reach the 2.8 million North Carolinian adults with prediabetes.

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Doctor’s mnemonic boosts holistic management of type 2 diabetes

When it comes to caring for his patients with type 2 diabetes, Tony Hampton, MD, takes a different route: focusing on the root cause of the disease. Learn more.

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Teen prediabetes skyrockets: 3 ways physicians can help

It is critical for physicians to advance the prediabetes conversation with their younger patients. Here’s how.

Prevention & Wellness
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5 barriers to launching a virtual diabetes prevention program

To reach patients with prediabetes during the pandemic, Marshfield Clinic Health System launched the National Diabetes Prevention Program in a distance learning format.

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To overcome prediabetes referral barriers, turn to the community

Lifestyle change programs offer evidence-based approaches to treating prediabetes. But how do you overcome referral barriers? Find out more.

Prevention & Wellness