Diabetes care
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Practice Guideline Guideline
Development of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for diabetes: the Department of Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense guidelines initiative.
To describe the Veterans Affairs (VA)/Department of Defense (DoD) Clinical Practice Guidelines for diabetes and contrast selected recommendations with those of the American Diabetes Association (ADA). ⋯ The VA/DoD Guidelines are intended to guide diabetes care by providing Internet-ready, evidence-based annotations in algorithmic form to help clinicians set and revise individual treatment goals for their patients.
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To provide an overview of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) research activities, highlighting diabetes-related research. ⋯ The VA's diabetes research portfolio is extensive and includes many investigators, trainees, and fellows. There is substantial leveraging of VA diabetes research with support from other federal and nonfederal funding agencies, foundations, and private corporations. VA diabetes research findings benefit the global diabetes care community.