Disordered eating and eating disorders with type 1 diabetes mellitus
Clinical guidelines
- Disordered Eating (DE) and Eating Disorders (ED) in children, adolescents and adults with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) (PDF 1303 kB)
- Inpatient Management of Type 1 Diabetes and Disordered Eating/Eating Disorders in ≥16 years (PDF 607 kB)
Psychological assessments
Diabetes Psychosocial Assessment (DPAT) – Adult (Phase 4) (PDF 840 kB)
Diabetic ketoacidosis
Clinical protocol
Supporting acute management and discharge planning for diabetic ketoacidosis in adults.
Management of Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Adults (age 16 years and over) (PDF 307 kB).
Information to use with your patients
- SGLT2 inhibitor medicines for diabetes – Consumer information leaflet (PDF 703 kB)
- Sick day management for people on insulin fact sheet (PDF 231 kB)
- Managing ketones and sick days on an insulin pump fact sheet (PDF 1000 kB)
- The Simplified Sick Day Management tool (PDF 372 kB) helps adults with low health literacy manage sick days
Managing hypoglycaemia
These resources are recommended by the Queensland Diabetes Clinical Network.
- Managing hypoglycaemia fact sheet from Diabetes Australia.
- Hypoglycaemia fact sheet from the Baker Institute
Nutrition and carbohydrates
The Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute have a Carbohydrate counting in exchanges fact sheet and a Carbohydrates and Glycaemic Index (GI) fact sheet. These will help your patients use food labels and tools to count carbohydrates, and how to identify non-carbohydrate foods.
Diabetes Australia has compiled a list of mobile apps to support carbohydrate counting and blood glucose monitoring, tailored to the Australian market. They provide users with real-time data, personalised insights and, in some cases, integration with glucose meters and wearable devices to support more convenient and proactive diabetes self-management.
Pregnancy and diabetes
We also have pregnancy planning information for women with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
Pregnancy guidance for women with type 1 diabetes
Breakthrough T1D has created a diabetes pregnancy guide especially for those living with T1D. The guide includes sections on:
- preparing for pregnancy with T1D
- care, tests and technology throughout pregnancy
- birth, early parenthood and lived experience stories.
Insulin dose advice
- Provision of Advice on Insulin Dose Advice Final Competency Assessment and Applicant Declaration (PDF 277 kB)
- Guiding Principles for the Local Credentialling of RNs and AHPs to Provide Insulin Dose Advice (PDF 428 kB)
- Expand your scope of practice (PDF 1593 kB)
- Insulin dose advise (PDF 735 kB)
- Having trouble managing your glucose levels? (PDF 813 kB)
- Have you been hospitalised because of your diabetes? (PDF 540 kB)
- All about insulin pumps – Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute website
OzDAFNE for adults with type 1 diabetes
DAFNE (dose adjustment for normal eating) is a diabetes education program for adults with type 1 diabetes. In Australia, we call it OzDAFNE.
The program covers carbohydrate counting and adjusting insulin doses, as well as how to manage physical activity, illness and hypoglycaemia.
Diabetes and technology
- Insulin pump management – inpatient guidelines (PDF 1250 kB)
- Insulin pump management interactive checklist (PDF 271 kB)
- Insulin pump management checklist (printable) (PDF 210 kB)
- Breakthrough T1D practical guide to exercise and T1D with a pump and CGM that explains how exercise affects glucose levels and outlines adjustable settings across 4 insulin pump systems
Diabetes foot disease
Guidelines and standards
- International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) 2023 Guidelines – IWGDF website
- Australian guidelines for diabetes-related foot disease 2021 – Diabetes Feet Australia website
- HRFS Accreditation – National Association of Diabetes Centres website
Clinician education and training
Online courses about foot disease for all health professionals. These are recommended by the Queensland Diabetes Clinical Network.
- Diabetes and feet elearning and research - Diabetes Feet Australia
- Foot disease: Recognise, Respond, Refer – Clinical Skills Development Service
- Foot Forward Program for Health professionals – Foot Forward
Information to use with your patients
The following resources may have images of foot ulcers.
- Keep your feet healthy – Foot Forward
- Check your risk – Foot Forward
- About feet – Diabetes Feet Australia
- Foot health – Baker Institute
Data collections
The Queensland Diabetes Clinical Network has an extensive database of diabetes foot disease outcomes in Queensland. We use the data for quality improvement and research projects.
To access this information email qlddiabetesnetwork@health.qld.gov.au.