At a glance
These guides are designed to help pharmacists support type 2 diabetes prevention, medication management, and more.
Resources for pharmacists
Rx for the National Diabetes Prevention Program: Action Guide for Community Pharmacists
This CDC resource can help community pharmacists reach people at risk of developing type 2 diabetes. These people could benefit from the National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP) lifestyle change program. The guide:
- Highlights ways pharmacists can engage with the National DPP.
- Provides case studies of pharmacies that have already taken these steps.
- Is framed around three tiers of engagement (Promoting Awareness; Screening, Testing, and Referring; and Delivering the Program). This allows pharmacies to choose a tier or tiers based on their own capacity.
Rx for the National DPP: Three Ways that Pharmacists Can Prevent Type 2 Diabetes
This webinar promotes awareness of the National DPP within the pharmacy community. It outlines three tiers of engagement pharmacists can adopt to get involved in the program. This webinar is a designated event for which pharmacists can receive .75 contact hours in pharmacy education as a continuing professional education credit.
Emerging Practices in Diabetes Prevention and Control: Working with Pharmacists
This document examines the role of pharmacists in chronic disease management. It highlights experiences from three state grantees in involving pharmacists in medication therapy management and team-based care. The states describe the roles they and their partners played, facilitating factors and barriers, initial results, and lessons learned.
This CDC resource provides basic definitions for medication therapy management (MTM), comprehensive medication management, and collaborative drug therapy management. It also describes:
- The role of the pharmacist in team-based care.
- An overview of pharmacist scope of practice policies at the federal and state levels.
- How chronic diseases are addressed in community pharmacies.
- Examples of MTM from state health departments.
- Strategies for working with pharmacists to build chronic disease MTM programs.