Effective patient-centred care for people living with diabetes requires a collaborative,
interdisciplinary team of health-care professionals (
1
,
2
). Ideally, each member of this team provides unique and complementary expertise to
help patients develop and follow a comprehensive care plan, make healthy behaviour
and lifestyle choices and, ultimately, improve health outcomes (
3
,
4
). Because most people living with diabetes will require drug therapy (
- Community Preventive Services Task Force
Diabetes management: Team-based care for patients with type 2 diabetes.
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Date: 2017
Date accessed: August 4, 2017
5
,
6
), it is very likely that a diabetes care team will include a pharmacist. Pharmacists
contribute to the diabetes care team by using their medication knowledge, skills and
professional judgement to ensure each patient's medication needs are managed.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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