Diabetes Management: Pharmacotherapy Options for Diabetes Mellitus

Course overview

Many new pharmacotherapies have become available in recent years. The variety of options is ideal for patients with diabetes, but this vast array of choices may make treating diabetes daunting for healthcare providers. In addition, new guidelines for the treatment of diabetes are released by the American Diabetes Association yearly and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists every other year. In order to effectively manage patients with diabetes, it is important to stay current with the standard of care for treatment of diabetes and the therapeutic options available. Clinicians need to understand that guidelines are meant as a “guide” to be used along with critical thinking and patient-shared decision making. There are multiple diabetes guidelines available for consultation; this course will consider two such guidelines to review current treatment recommendations for diabetes management and the pharmacotherapies, both new and time-tested, currently available.