Chapter 40- Diabetes Mellitus

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IMPORTANT NOTE – PLEASE READ FIRST: This continuing education assessment requires that you first purchase the text book: Pharmacotherapy Principles & Practice. Please go to our home page: http://www.rxugace.com/ and click on “Books” for more information Prior To Registering for this assessment.

Upon completion of the corresponding textbook chapter in Pharmacotherapy Principles & Practice and this on-line assessment, the reader should be able to:

1. Discuss the incidence and economic impact of diabetes.
2. List screening and diagnostic criteria for diabetes.
3. Distinguish clinical differences in type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes mellitus.
4. Discuss therapeutic goals for blood glucose, blood pressure, and lipids for a patient with diabetes.
5. Recommend nonpharmacologic therapies, including meal planning and physical activity, for patients with diabetes.
6. Compare oral agents used in treating diabetes by their mechanisms of action, time of action, side effects, contraindications, and effectiveness.
7. Select appropriate insulin therapy based on onset, peak, and duration of action.
8. Develop a comprehensive therapeutic patient monitoring plan for a patient with diabetes based on patient-specific factors.

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