Diabetes : improving patient care /
Over 20 million people in the United States have diabetes, a metabolic disorder characterized by the body's lack of production or ineffective use of insulin, and the rate is on the rise. Diabetes can cause acute, as well as long-term complications when not properly controlled. Some of the compl...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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Series: | Oxford American endocrinology library.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Meeting goals in diabetes : why and how
- The office visit : setting the goals
- Pharmacological treatment of type 2 diabetes
- Insulin therapy in ambulatory patients with type 2 diabetes
- Diabetes complications
- Facilitating motivation for self-care in patients with diabetes
- Diet recommendations and patient education
- Insulin therapy in hospitalized patients with diabetes mellitus.