Diabetes Medication Choice

• Diabetes Medication Choice decision aid cards provide information on medications commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes.
• The information gathered from relevant research studies is organized into 7 issues that may be of interest to the patient.

Decision aids to be used during the encounter:

Online interactive version

• Take-home brochure (Spanish/English) for patients
• Cards:

English

English Full Set 

• HBA1C Reduction
• Daily Routine
• Low Blood Sugar 
• Cost 
• Daily Sugar Test 
• Considerations
• Weight             

Spanish

Spanish Full Set

• HBA1C Reduction
• Daily Routine
• Low Blood Sugar
• Cost
• Daily Sugar Test
• Considerations
• Weight

Decision aids in practice:  

Video demonstration of the cards and pamphlet

Additional resources

• Shared Decision Making Resource Center
• Decision Aids in Literature

DISCLAIMER:  No decision aid replaces the conversation patients should have with their clinicians to make important, clinical decisions.  Use of these decision aids carries no liability to its developers or to the Mayo Clinic Foundation for Education and Research.

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If you download our decision aids, we would love to hear from you!  Please send us a note at kerunit@mayo.edu to let us know who you are, why you are interested in the decision aid(s), and how you plan to use them.  Remember to check back to this page periodically to make sure you are using the most up-to-date version(s).