10 Steps to Better Glucose Control: A Practical Guide

The Global Partnership for Effective Diabetes Management is a multidisciplinary taskforce of internationally respected diabetes experts, including specialist nurses, from leading institutions and diabetes organizations committed to improving treatment outcomes for people with type 2 diabetes.

In collaboration with the International Diabetes Federation and the Federation of European Nurses in Diabetes, the Global Partnership has developed a CD-ROM - 10 Steps to Better Glucose Control: A Practical Guide - to help healthcare professionals to improve management for individuals with type 2 diabetes.

Recent studies have reported that >60% of people with type 2 diabetes have glucose levels over recommended targets, putting them at risk for complications such as cardiovascular disease, kidney damage and blindness. The educational CD-ROM contains practical guidance, using slideshows and multimedia presentations, to enable more individuals to achieve recommended glycemic goals. Through this CD-ROM, the 10 Steps to Better Glucose Control and the Control to Goal publications, the Global Partnership aims to support healthcare professionals in helping more patients reach recommended treatment goals, thereby improving clinical outcomes.

Here, the two peer-reviewed publications by the Global Partnership can be downloaded:

• Del Prato S, et al. Improving glucose management: Ten steps to get more patients with type 2 diabetes to glycaemic goal
  download pdf file (305kb)
• Bailey CJ, et al. Earlier intervention in type 2 diabetes: The case for achieving early and sustained glycaemic control
  download pdf file (471kb)

These are electronic versions of articles published in The International Journal of Clinical Practice: 59(11), 2005, pp 1345-1355 and pp 1309-1316 which is published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd. To access the journal on-line, please visit www.blackwell-synergy.com

Also available to download here are the four slide sets from the Control to Goal educational CD-ROM:

• Achieving Good Glycemic Control  download pdf file (3mb)
• The Underlying Pathophysiology  download pdf file (1mb)
• Treating Earlier and Effectively  download pdf file (2mb)
• The Multidisciplinary Approach  download pdf file (2mb)

Additional resources include materials for use by healthcare professionals and background on the members of the Global Partnership for Effective Diabetes Management:

• Fact Sheets - one for each of the 10 Steps to Better Glucose Control, with a background and call to action to explain the rationale behind the Global Partnership's recommendations 
   download pdf file
• Wall Chart - a graphical representation of the 10 Steps to Better Glucose Control for healthcare professionals to print and display in their practice/surgery
   download pdf file
• 10 Steps to Better Glucose Control - a one-page reference containing the 10 Steps
   download pdf file 
• Biographies of members of the Global Partnership
   download pdf file 

Acknowledgement

The Global Partnership for Effective Diabetes Management is sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline plc.