A February 2024 roundtable report (at https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1034628 ) by the Endocrine Society set out a position statement offering a framework for leveraging the experiences of people with diabetes to optimize health outcomes in several important areas, including:
Use of person-centered language in the health care setting
Ensuring that referrals to diabetes self-management and support service programs are timely and accessible to all people with diabetes.
Effectively navigating available therapeutic options together and explaining complex regimens to people with diabetes to encourage them to take medication as prescribed.
Considering ways to adjust an individual’s treatment plan in a timely manner if they aren’t meeting therapeutic goals to prevent therapeutic inertia.
Discussing strategies for assessment of hypoglycemia—low blood glucose episodes that can be dangerous—as well as prevention and treatment of hypoglycemia.
Improving cardiovascular and renal outcomes using newer therapeutic options.
Using telehealth in the appropriate clinical setting.
Using and incorporating diabetes technologies such as insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring systems into the diabetes management plan, when appropriate.