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• The ongoing process of facilitating the knowledge, skill, and ability necessary for diabetes self-care.
• This process incorporates the needs, goals, and life experiences of the person with diabetes or prediabetes and is guided by
evidence-based research.
• The overall objectives of DSME are to support informed decision making, self-care behaviors, problem solving, and active
collaboration with the health care team and to improve clinical outcomes, health status, and quality of life.
Note: CMS uses the term training instead of education when defining the reimbursable benefit (DSMT); the authors of this
position statement use the term education (DSME) as reflected in the National Standards. In the context of this article, the terms
have the same meaning.