Reseach Results: Value of Diabetes Education
Over the past several years, AADE has made it a priority to build a body of evidence that demonstrates the value of diabetes educators and DSME/T in enhancing a variety of outcomes - clinical, financial, utilization, behavioral and satisfaction. Our most recent research, which was funded by the AADE Education and Research Foundation:
Literature Review - Costs and Benefits
This article presents an overview of published literature about the economic benefits and costs
associated with diabetes education.
Suzanne A. Boren, Karen A. Fitzner, Pallavi S. Panhalkar, and James E. Specker. Published
in
The Diabetes Educator, January/February 2009; vol. 35, 1: pp. 72-96.
Assessing the Value of Diabetes Education
A study of three years of claims data from commercial (employee and dependent) insurance and
Medicare plans that reflect care of 634,645 individuals with diabetes found that people with
diabetes who received diabetes education have lower average health care costs than patients who do
not participate in diabetes education.
Ian Duncan, FSA, FIA, FCIA, MAAA, Christian Birkmeyer, MS, Sheryl Coughlin, PhD, Qijuan
(Emily) Li, MPH, Dawn Sherr, RD, CDE, Sue Boren, PhD. Published in
The Diabetes Educator, September/October 2009, vol. 35, no. 5 752-760
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