All tools are available at diabetes, including the patient checklist, patient clinical flow sheet and a summary of the key components of the systematic approach to diabetes. In addition, the tools will be distributed to more than 40,000 healthcare professionals and more than 35,000 consumers across Canada.

Diabetes Facts

Today more than 3 million Canadians are living with diabetes and over the next decade, another 1.2 million people will be diagnosed. Nearly one in four Canadians has either diabetes or prediabetes now and more than twenty people are diagnosed with diabetes every hour of every day.

If left unchecked, the economic burden of diabetes in Canada could escalate to nearly $17 billion by 2020, an increase of more than $10 billion from 2000, and the number of Canadians diagnosed with diabetes will have nearly tripled.

A recently published study by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) found that while most Canadian adults living with diabetes get regular care, they are not always getting all of the clinically recommended tests they require to prevent complications. Although many receive individual tests, such as blood glucose or A1C tests, urine protein tests and dilated eye exams, and are having their feet checked for sores or irritations, the results found that fewer than one-third (32%) reported receiving all four of these clinically recommended tests from their health providers.

Source: CANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION