SECTION CHANGES
Section 1. Improving Care and Promoting Health in Populations
(https://doi.org/10.2337/dc23-S001)
Recommendation 1.7 was added to address the use of community health workers to support the management of diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors, especially in underserved communities and health care systems.
Additional language and definitions regarding digital health, telehealth, and telemedicine were added, along with the benefits of these modalities of care delivery, including social determinants of health in the telehealth subsection.
The subsection “Access to Care and Quality Improvement” was revised to add language regarding value-based payments to listed quality improvement efforts.
The “Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers” subsection was updated to include more recent data for this population.
More defining terms were added for non-English speakers and diabetes education in the “Language Barriers” subsection.