There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.
Abstract
<p class="first" id="d2214512e43">The American Diabetes Association (ADA) "Standards
of Medical Care in Diabetes" includes
ADA's current clinical practice recommendations and is intended to provide the components
of diabetes care, general treatment goals and guidelines, and tools to evaluate quality
of care. Members of the ADA Professional Practice Committee, a multidisciplinary expert
committee, are responsible for updating the Standards of Care annually, or more frequently
as warranted. For a detailed description of ADA standards, statements, and reports,
as well as the evidence-grading system for ADA's clinical practice recommendations,
please refer to the Standards of Care Introduction Readers who wish to comment on
the Standards of Care are invited to do so at professional.diabetes.org/SOC.
</p>