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Why Are We Stuck? Therapeutic Inertia in Diabetes Education

Author(s) -

Carla Cox,

Diana Isaacs

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

diabetes spectrum

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.716

H-Index - 31

eISSN - 1944-7353

pISSN - 1040-9165

DOI - 10.2337/ds19-0003

Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , inertia , health care , quality (philosophy) , nursing , intensive care medicine , philosophy , physics , epistemology , classical mechanics , endocrinology , economics , economic growth

Diabetes educators can be challenged by therapeutic inertia, as has been documented with other health care providers. There are many contributing factors related to the educators themselves, their patients, and the health care system in which they operate. To address this potentially significant barrier to quality patient care, diabetes educators can adopt numerous strategies to maximize their impact and address the factors contributing to therapeutic inertia in their practices.

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