UNC physician writes innovative educational guide for diabetics
CHAPEL HILL – Darren DeWalt, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of general medicine and epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author of “Living With Diabetes: An Everyday Guide for You and Your Family.” Published and distributed by the American College of Physicians, this self-management guide for patients covers diet, exercise, monitoring blood sugar, insulin, and other medications.
April 19, 2007
UNC physician writes innovative educational guide for diabetics
CHAPEL HILL – Darren DeWalt, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of general medicine and epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author of “Living With Diabetes: An Everyday Guide for You and Your Family.”
Published and distributed by the American College of Physicians, this self-management guide for patients covers diet, exercise, monitoring blood sugar, insulin, and other medications.
Available with text in English or Spanish, Living With Diabetes is written in a conversational tone at a fifth-grade reading level and includes photographs of patients with diabetes and their families. It gives practical tips and concrete examples of successful approaches to control diabetes. Patients can get a copy of Living With Diabetes from their internist.
“Living with Diabetes” is one of three tools to improve diabetes care to be launched at the ACP annual meeting in San Diego, Calif. April 19-21. The others are the “ACP Diabetes Care Guide” for physicians and practice teams and The Diabetes Portal, a free Web-based resource for physicians and patients that provides tools, resources, and research supporting diabetes care.
According to the ACP, these are “designed to help physicians and their staff to implement team-based care strategies, provide them with practical tools and motivate patients to implement lifestyle changes and self-management techniques.”
The American College of Physicians is the largest medical specialty organization and the second-largest physician group in the United States.
Media contact: Stephanie Crayton, (919) 966-2860 or scrayton@unch.unc.edu
