How clinical pharmacists can improve outpatient diabetes care

摘要

Uncontrolled diabetes creates major cost and care burdens on the healthcare system. Management of diabetes is time and resource intensive, medically complex and requires patient engagement to be fully effective [l]. Despite improvement in the last decade, outpatient diabetes care is far from optimal [2]. Especially in the context of an escalating number of Americans with diabetes, the current influx of newly insured patients into the primary care system, and increasing scarcity of primary care providers, it is important to consider new strategies to provide high-quality care to the more than 25 million Americans with diabetes mellitus [3].