Team Care: Comprehensive Lifetime Management for Diabetes

Quality diabetes care involves more than just the primary provider. Find out more about implementing multidisciplinary team care for people with diabetes in all clinical settings and how to reduce the human and economic toll of diabetes through a continuous, proactive, planned, patient-centered, and population-based approach to care.

This book was created to help organizational leaders in health care systems and purchasers of health care to implement multidisciplinary team care for people with diabetes in all clinical settings. The key function of a multidisciplinary team is to provide continuous, supportive, and aggressive
care for people with diabetes throughout the course of their disease. Properly implemented diabetes team care is cost-effective and the preferred
method of care delivery, particularly when services include health promotion and disease prevention in addition to intensive clinical management.