WHO Guidelines on Diabetes Management in Low-Resource Settings

Target Audience: Primary care clinicians, endocrinologists, hospitalists, international healthcare clinicians, policymakers, national diabetes program managers, medicine procurement officers

Background

As the cost of diabetes care rises and the cost of oral antidiabetic drugs varies widely, healthcare institutions and government entities must consider medication efficacy, safety, and cost in their recommendations for managing patients with diabetes. Recent diabetes guidelines by the American College of Physicians focused on drug therapy to meet glycemic control targets (NEJM JW Gen Med Apr 1 2018 and Ann Intern Med 2018; 168:569); the current WHO recommendations reinforce lifestyle modif…