• Mainak Banerjee, Soumen Chakraborty, and Rimesh Pal.
• Department of Endocrinology, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, 700007, India.
• Diabetes Metab Syndr. 2020 Jul 1; 14 (4): 351-354.

Background And AimsCOVID-19 pandemic has challenged the physician-centered approach of diabetes care in India that is primarily based on routine clinic visits. We aim to review the various aspects of patient-centered care via diabetes self-management education based on available literature.MethodsThis is a narrative review using Pubmed, EMBASE and Google Scholar search till March 29, 2020. Search terms were "COVID-19", "diabetes self-care", "diabetes self-management education", "DSME", "diabetes self-management in India", "diabetes self-care in India" and "DSME in India".ResultsWe have discussed an educational plan on diabetes self-management that can be adopted for people with diabetes mellitus in our country amid the ongoing pandemic. We have also identified the barriers to diabetes self-management in the current scenario and suggested possible solutions to overcome those.ConclusionsWe have reemphasized the need for a simultaneous patient-centered approach in routine diabetes care that has to be coordinated by a multidisciplinary team amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.Copyright © 2020 Diabetes India. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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