National Diabetes Month — November 2014
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Rui Li, PhD1, Sundar S. Shrestha, PhD1, Ruth Lipman, PhD2, Nilka R. Burrows, MPH1, Leslie E. Kolb, MBA2, Stephanie Rutledge, PhD1 (Author affiliations at end of text) Diabetes is a complex chronic disease that requires active involvement of patients in its management (1). Diabetes selfmanagement education and training (DSMT), “the ongoing process of facilitating the knowledge, skill, and ability necessary for prediabetes and diabetes self-care,” is an important component of integrated diabetes care (2). It is an intervention in which patients learn about diabetes and how to implement the self-management that is imperative to control the disease.
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