Help Patients Prevent Diabetes STAT

Here's what you'll find in the toolkit:

Engaging Health Care Teams

This fact sheet provides a brief overview of the evidence-based diabetes prevention program and a rationale for engaging with the program. It also assists clinicians in advocating to their colleagues about the value of incorporating diabetes prevention screening and referral into their practices.

The Evidence behind the diabetes prevention program

This fact sheet provides short summaries of studies conducted over the last 15 years, creating the evidence base for the prevention of diabetes through lifestyle change interventions.

Engaging Patients

Prediabetes Risk Test

This questionnaire offers patients the opportunity to learn about their risk for prediabetes while helping care teams identify patients at great risk.

Are you at risk for type 2 diabetes? Download the Spanish translation/Descargue la versión en español.

This patient handout is for use in waiting areas to increase awareness and pave the way for conversations about screening, testing and referral.

So you have prediabetes … now what? Download the Spanish translation/Descargue la versión en español.

This patient handout is for use by physician practices in the exam room after screening has revealed that a patient has prediabetes. Helps the patient leave the office visit with concrete information for later reference.

Why participate in a diabetes prevention program?

This patient handout educates your patients about prediabetes and the benefits of a lifestyle treatment program, including a program referral.

Promoting prediabetes awareness to your patients Download the Spanish translation/Descargue la versión en español.

This poster will help practices increase patient awareness of prediabetes and pave the way for conversations with patients about screening, testing and referral.

Incorporate screening, testing and referral into your practice

M.A.P. to diabetes prevention for your practice

Offers a roadmap to applying the elements of the diabetes prevention identification and referral guide.

Point-of-care prediabetes identification algorithm

This infographic offers practices an option to adapt/incorporate a prediabetes identification and referral process into their workflow.

Retrospective prediabetes identification algorithm

This infographic offers practices an option to adapt/ incorporate an identification and referral process into their electronic health records and generate a registry of patients at risk for type 2 diabetes.

Sample Patient letter/email and phone script Download the Spanish translation/ Descargue la versión en español.

This letter/email template enables physician practices to conduct efficient follow-up and referral with patients who have prediabetes and for whom referral to a diabetes prevention program is an option.

Sample patient referral form/table for calculating body mass index

Makes the referral process easier for practices, helps engage the patient and prepares diabetes prevention program providers to engage with the patient as well.