Updated Emmi Programs
Program Code: 160
Subscriptions: EmmiEngage, Faith-Based EmmiEngage
Main changes:
- Removed information about discontinued meter that takes cartridges.
- Other suggestions from Annual Medical Review (AMR) and UptoDate editors (UTD)
- Added information about what the A1C means
- Added information about how steroids affect checking your blood sugar
- Added reference to pre-loaded lancets
- Adjusted potentially judgmental language
- New standard language for Emmi programs
- Edited for clarity
Program Code: 25331
Subscriptions: EmmiEngage, Faith-Based EmmiEngage
Main changes:
- Updated content per AMR and UTD suggestions:
- Minor co-morbidity information changes
- Minor language updates on diet and blood glucose testing
- Removed extensive description about problems diabetes can cause in the body to make it less scary
- Moved sugary drinks language to beginning of healthy eating run
- Updates to improve inclusivity
- Prediabetes and Your Body: Overview (32086)
Program Code: 17246
Subscriptions: EmmiEngage, Faith-Based EmmiEngage
Main changes:
- Removed “I know this might sound ridiculous but think of it like if a shark was ripping off your arm while a train ran over your legs.”
- Revised to state that nonopioid analgesics are often used along with opioids
- Edited to make it clear that you’ll have other medications to help with pain (like NSAIDs) in addition to opioids and opioids are only for really intense pain.
- Removed Oxycontin, which is an extended release formulation of oxycodone. Extended release opioids should not be prescribed for acute pain in opioid naïve patients.
- Pain Management: Acute, In-Hospital: Explaining Your Pain (20292)
- Pain Management: Acute, In-Hospital: NSAIDs (20294)
- Pain Management: Acute, In-Hospital: Opioids (20293)
- Pain Management: Acute, In-Hospital: Regional Blocks (20295)
- Pain Management: Acute, In-Hospital: Other Ways (20296)
