Using employee experts to offer an interprofessional diabetes risk reduction program to fellow employees.

A recent increase in the incidence of diabetes and pre-diabetes is causing many employers to spend more of their healthcare benefit budgets to manage the conditions. A self-insured university in the USA has implemented an interprofessional diabetes mellitus risk reduction program using its own employee faculty and staff experts to help fellow employees manage their diabetes and pre-diabetes. The interprofessional team consists of five pharmacists, a dietitian, an exercise physiologist, a health educator and a licensed mental health practitioner.

Body weight estimation in chronic kidney disease: results of a practitioner survey.

Purpose: To survey the body weight estimation practices of renal dietitians in the United States in preparation for the Council on Renal Nutrition of the National Kidney Foundation symposium addressing this topic.

Objectives: To obtain quantitative and qualitative data on body weight estimation clinical practices of renal dietitians through the use of a forced-choice and open-ended survey format, and to assess the impact of the variation of body weight estimation practices on the determination of caloric, protein, and other nutritional parameters for different chronic kidney disease stages 1-5.

Methods: A survey was developed by one renal dietitian with input from a cohort of 12 nationally representative renal dietitians.