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This site is designed to enable healthcare professionals to browse the entire Clinical Practice Guidelines document easily, find quick answers to frequently asked clinical questions and search for guidelines specifically related to particular clinical issues and activities.

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CPG Tool Kit

The CPG Tool Kit for the Prevention and Management of Diabetes in Canada is a handy reference for healthcare professionals which bundles a comprehensive collection of the six major themes from the 2008 Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Diabetes in Canada—diabetes and cardiovascular disease; footcare; organization of care, pregnancy and children; lifestyle and physical activity; and access to and promotion of educational services. Learn More...

2008 Clinical Practice Guidelines

Published only once every five years, the Association’s Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Diabetes in Canada represent the best and most current evidence-based clinical practice data for healthcare professionals. On a global stage, the Guidelines support the Canadian Diabetes Association’s status as a leader in diabetes prevention and management. Learn More...
You may download the 2008 Clinical Practice Guidelines in PDF format.
You may download the 2008 Clinical Practice Guidelines in French in PDF format.
You may download the 2008 CPG Executive Summary in PDF format.

Presentations

Changes in Nutrition in the 2008 Clinical Practice Guidelines.
Managing weight & diabetes: Tips for a Healthy Lifestyle for Adults.
Nutrigenomics: Applying Genomics to Nutrition Research.

Additional Educator Materials

Practical Tips for People with Diabetes and Kidney Disease
Maintaining blood glucose at target is an important aspect of diabetes management. If you have chronic kidney disease, treating low blood glucose will require a little more care.
Steps to take to deal with low blood glucose.
Diet for Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease: Tips for Educators
The ‘Diabetes and Kidney Disease – Kidney Care’ section, in Chapter 13 of the Beyond the Basics (BTB) Resource, provides an outline about kidney disease in people with diabetes, with an emphasis on prevention.
Tips to help educators adapt the BTB for people with diabetes and kidney disease.

Best and Promising Practices in Diabetes Education

With financial support from the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Canadian Diabetes Association embarked on a project to identify ‘best’ and ‘promising’ practices in diabetes education based on the best available evidence; to develop an assessment tool that would identify these practices; and to disseminate the findings to diabetes educators, healthcare professionals, government, and key decision makers and funders of diabetes education programs. The ultimate goal of the project is to improve uptake and implementation of evidence-based ‘best’ and ‘promising’ practices in diabetes education in Canada by increasing awareness and knowledge of these practices and by increasing access to required tools, resources and financial support for diabetes education. Learn More...
Best and Promising Practices in Diabetes Education Catalogue.

 


Last modified: November 17, 2009