Tips for DM life.

How to reach tight control?

Test your blood sugar levels several times each day. It is valuable to test blood sugar levels as often as you feel it is giving you meaningful information.

• Adjust medication doses according to food intake and exercise.
• Follow a diet and exercise plan. For people with Type 2 diabetes, regular exercise and maintaining a healthy weight may forestall the use of medication.
• Stay in close contact with a health care provider skilled in helping patients manage diabetes.
• Example
  Clinic-based pharmacists offered support to patients with diabetes through direct teaching about diabetes, frequent phone follow-up, medication algorithms, and use of a database that tracked patient outcomes and actively identified opportunities to improve care.
  In conclusion, a pharmacist-based diabetes care program integrated into primary care practice significantly reduced HbA1c among patients with diabetes and poor glucose control.
  
  

  Pharmacist Led, Primary Care-Based Disease Management Improves Hemoglobin Aic in High-Risk Patients With Diabetes

  Russell Rothman, MD, MPP
  

  Betsy Bryant, PharmD, CDE

  Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

  Cheryl Horlen, PharmD

  School of Pharmacy, Campbell University, Buies Creek, NC

  Michael Pignone, MD, MPH

  Division of General Internal Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

  
  American Journal of Medical Quality, Vol. 18, No. 2, 51-58 (2003)
  DOI: 10.1177/106286060301800202
  © 2003 American College of Medical Quality