Tools & Resources – Type 2 Diabetes
Quickly find all available resources and examples to help with your DRIVE Implementation
Using Our Resources
The resources below are included throughout the DRIVE Toolkit and available here for easy access.
Examples
Examples, included throughout the DRIVE Toolkit, can help guide you in maximizing the value of gathering data and executing your plan.
Assess & Understand
The objective of Phase 2 is to understand and assess pertinent health baseline metrics so that specific issues can be identified, and solutions can be addressed.
Resources
- ADA – Patient Engagement Toolkit
- ADA – Standards of Care App
- ADA – Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes, 2021
- AHRQ – Using Root Cause Analysis to Improve Quality and Performance
- CDC – Addressing Health Disparities in Diabetes
- CDC – Community Health Assessments and Health Improvement Planning
- CDC – Diabetes and Obesity Maps
- CDC – Health Care Providers, Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes
- CDC – National Diabetes Statistics Report, 2020
- Europe PMC – Trends in Prevalence of Diabetes and Control of Risk Factors in Diabetes Among US Adults, 1999-2018
- IHI – Cause and Effect Diagram
- NACCHO – Community Health Assessment and Improvement Planning
- NCBI – The “A to Z” of Managing Type 2 Diabetes in Culturally Diverse Populations
- NIH – Patient Health Questionnaire
- NMQF – Comment on Riddle et al. Diabetes Care Editors’ Expert Forum 2018: Managing Big Data for Diabetes Research and Care
- NMQF – Diabetes Index
- NMQF – Drug Copay and Hospitalizations in Elderly Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
- NMQF – Effect of Medication Copayment on Adherence and Discontinuation in Medicare Beneficiaries with Type 2 Diabetes
- NMQF – Patient Advocacy Learning Communities
- OMH – Diabetes and African Americans
- PRAPARE – Protocol for Responding to and Assessing Patients’ Assets, Risks, and Experiences
- SHC – Practice Assessment Survey: DRIVE Diabetes Quality and Equity
- Webinar: Dr. Davidson – COVID-19 & Diabetes
Examples
Commit & Train
The objective of Phase 3 is to engage key health personnel and stakeholders as part of a DRIVE Advisory Group.
Solutions
The objective of Phase 4 is to provide potential solutions that Champions can leverage to help pinpoint the right DRIVE approach for their specific set of issues.
Resources
- AAFP – Medication Adherence: We Didn’t Ask and They Didn’t Tell
- ADA – DiabetesPro: Resources for Community Health Workers (CHWs)
- ADA – #HealthEquityNow
- ADA – InsulinHelp.org
- ADA – Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes, 2021
- ADCES – Access and Affordability Resources
- AHA – Medicine Assistance Programs
- AJMC – Strategies for Addressing the Cost of Nonadherence in Diabetes
- AMA – Medication Adherence: Improve Patient Outcomes and Reduce Costs
- AMA – Steps Forward: Managing Type 2 Diabetes, A Team-Based Approach
- CDC – Diabetes Basics
- CDC – Diabetes Data and Statistics
- CDC – Diabetes, Health Care Providers
- CDC – Diabetes Infographics
- CDC – Living with Diabetes
- CDC – National Diabetes Prevention Program
- CDC – National Diabetes Prevention Program (Lifestyle Change Program) in United States Counties as of March 2017
- CDC – National Vital Statistics Reports, 2021
- CDC – Programa Nacional de Prevención de la Diabetes [In Spanish]
- CDC – Resources and Publications
- CDC – Tailored Pharmacy-Based Interventions to Improve Medication Adherence
- CDC – Vivir con Diabetes [In Spanish]
- CJD – Beginning a Diabetes Quality Improvement Project
- Diabetes Sisters
- GoFundMe – How to Find Financial Assistance for Diabetes: Resources
- JAMA – Interventions to Improve Medication Adherence: A Review
- JDRF – Help with Your Diabetes Prescription and Insulin Costs
- Johns Hopkins Patient Guide to Diabetes
- NCBI – The “A to Z” of Managing Type 2 Diabetes in Culturally Diverse Populations
- NIH – Financial Help for Diabetes Care
- NIH – The Give and Take of Medication Adherence
- OMH – Diabetes and African Americans
- PhRMA – Patient Assistance
Examples
Take Action & Measure
The objective of Phase 5 is to establish a proper plan of action for implementing a well-defined and detailed Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) project.
Resources
- There are no resources for this phase
Communicate & Sustain
The objective of Phase 6 is to ensure certain key steps are communicated to the DRIVE team, and to recognize Champions for the effort and passion they bring to improving health outcomes.
Resources
- There are no resources for this phase
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