Diabetes Self-management Education Provision by an Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Team: A Quality Improvement Project.

Please note that citations/references numbers are not included in abstracts; please modify if needed: Diabetes is a major health problem and requires patients with diabetes to gain knowledge to manage their care effectively. The shift in diabetes care is to focus teaching on self-management to engage and empower patients with diabetes to live the best quality of life. Health care providers may not always be aware of diabetes self-management education available to patients. The American Association of Diabetes Educators has identified 7 essential self-care behaviors known as AADE7. The focus of this quality improvement project is to increase the provision and documentation of diabetes self-management education at a health center in Cincinnati, Ohio.