Person—diabetes therapy type, code NN

Implementation start date: 01/07/2013

DSS specific information:

The objectives and priorities of treatment must be tailored to the individual considering age, sex, weight and individual health status.

An individual management plan for each patient should include the following:

• establishment of targets of treatment
• healthy eating plan
• education in self-monitoring,
• adjustment of treatment and in approaches to coping with emergencies
• exercise program
• risk factor reduction, e.g. smoking cessation
• use of oral hypoglycaemic agents, if required
• use of insulin, if required
• screening for and treatment of complications of diabetes.

In addition to glycaemic control, management of diabetes of either type requires close attention to other risk factors for the development of complications, and the impact of lifestyle changes on blood glucose levels should be monitored. In patients with Type 2 diabetes, an increase in physical activity is essential in management of lipids and glucose level. Increased physical activity has been recognised as perhaps the most feasible way of modifying glucose intolerance, a risk factor for developing diabetes and macrovascular disease (Guest & O'Dea 1992).

DSS specific information:

The objectives and priorities of treatment must be tailored to the individual considering age, sex, weight and individual health status.

An individual management plan for each patient should include the following:

• establishment of targets of treatment
• healthy eating plan
• education in self-monitoring,
• adjustment of treatment and in approaches to coping with emergencies
• exercise program
• risk factor reduction, e.g. smoking cessation
• use of oral hypoglycaemic agents, if required
• use of insulin, if required
• screening for and treatment of complications of diabetes.

In addition to glycaemic control, management of diabetes of either type requires close attention to other risk factors for the development of complications, and the impact of lifestyle changes on blood glucose levels should be monitored. In patients with Type 2 diabetes, an increase in physical activity is essential in management of lipids and glucose level. Increased physical activity has been recognised as perhaps the most feasible way of modifying glucose intolerance, a risk factor for developing diabetes and macrovascular disease (Guest & O'Dea 1992).

DSS specific information:

The objectives and priorities of treatment must be tailored to the individual considering age, sex, weight and individual health status.

An individual management plan for each patient should include the following:

• establishment of targets of treatment
• healthy eating plan
• education in self-monitoring,
• adjustment of treatment and in approaches to coping with emergencies
• exercise program
• risk factor reduction, for example, smoking cessation
• use of oral hypoglycaemic agents, if required
• use of insulin, if required
• screening for and treatment of complications of diabetes.

In addition to glycaemic control, management of diabetes of either type requires close attention to other risk factors for the development of complications, and the impact of lifestyle changes on blood glucose levels should be monitored. In patients with type 2 diabetes, an increase in physical activity is essential in management of lipids and glucose level. Increased physical activity has been recognised as perhaps the most feasible way of modifying glucose intolerance, a risk factor for developing diabetes and macrovascular disease (Guest & O'Dea 1992).

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