Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.
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Links to related guidelines are provided separately:
●(See "Society guideline links: Diabetes mellitus in adults".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Diabetes mellitus in pregnancy".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Hyperglycemic emergencies".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Blood glucose monitoring".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Lipid disorders and atherosclerosis in children".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Obesity in children".)
International
●Endocrine Society (ES): Clinical practice guideline for the management of individuals with diabetes at high risk for hypoglycemia (2022)
●International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD): Clinical practice consensus guidelines (2022)
•Assessment and management of hypoglycemia in children and adolescents with diabetes
•Definition, epidemiology, and classification of diabetes in children and adolescents
•Diabetes education in children and adolescents
•Diabetes in adolescence
•Diabetes technologies – Glucose monitoring
•Diabetes technologies – Insulin delivery
•Diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperglycemic hyperosmolar state
•Exercise in children and adolescents with diabetes
•Glycemic targets and glucose monitoring for children, adolescents, and young people with diabetes
•Insulin treatment in children and adolescents with diabetes
•Management and support of children and adolescents with diabetes in school
•Management of children and adolescents with diabetes requiring surgery
•Management of cystic fibrosis-related diabetes in children and adolescents
•Management of the child, adolescent, and young adult with diabetes in limited resource settings
•Managing diabetes in preschoolers
•Microvascular and macrovascular complications in children and adolescents with diabetes
•Nutritional management in children and adolescents with diabetes
•Other complications and associated conditions in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes
•Psychological care of children, adolescents, and young adults with diabetes
•Ramadan and other religious fasting by young people with diabetes
•Sick day management in children and adolescents with diabetes
•Stages of type 1 diabetes in children and adolescents
•The delivery of ambulatory diabetes care to children and adolescents with diabetes
•The diagnosis and management of monogenic diabetes in children and adolescents
•Type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents
●Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO): Clinical practice guideline for diabetes management in chronic kidney disease (2022)
●European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) and ISPAD: Position statement on glucose management for exercise using continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) and intermittently scanned CGM (isCGM) systems in type 1 diabetes (2020)
●ISPAD: Position statement on type 1 diabetes in schools (2018)
●ISPAD, Life for a Child (LFaC), and International Diabetes Foundation (IDF): Pocketbook for management of diabetes in childhood and adolescence in under-resourced countries, 2nd edition (2017)
●World Health Organization (WHO): Global report on diabetes (2016)
●American Diabetes Association (ADA) and ES: Consensus statement on hypoglycemia and diabetes (2013)
Canada
●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS), Diabetes Canada, and Canadian Pediatric Endocrine Group (CPEG): Diabetes at School
●Diabetes Canada: Guidelines for the care of students living with diabetes at school
●Diabetes Canada: Clinical practice guidelines for diabetes and mental health, update (2023)
●Diabetes Canada: Clinical practice guidelines for blood glucose monitoring in adults and children with diabetes, update (2021)
●Diabetes Canada: Clinical practice guidelines for type 1 diabetes in children and adolescents (2018)
●Diabetes Canada: Clinical practice guidelines for type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents (2018)
●CPS: Position statement for managing type 1 diabetes in school – Recommendations for policy and practice (2015)
United States
●American Diabetes Association (ADA): Standards of care in diabetes (2024)
•Children and adolescents
●ADA: Guidelines and recommendations for laboratory analysis in the diagnosis and management of diabetes mellitus (2023)
●American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE): Clinical practice guideline for development of a diabetes mellitus comprehensive care plan, update (2022)
●American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM): Position statement on the care of the athlete and athletic person with diabetes (2022)
●European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) and ADA: Consensus report on automated insulin delivery – Benefits, challenges, and recommendations (2022)
●US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF): Final recommendation statement on screening for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents (2022)
●ADA and EASD: Consensus report on precision medicine in diabetes (2020)
●Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA): Perioperative management of pediatric patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus – Updated recommendations for anesthesiologists (2020)
●ADA: Position statement on physical activity/exercise and diabetes (2016)
●ADA: Position statement on psychosocial care for people with diabetes (2016)
●ADA: Position statement on diabetes care in the school setting (2015)
●ADA: Position statement on care of young children with diabetes in the child care setting (2014)
●ADA: Position statement on type 1 diabetes through the life span (2014)
●American Heart Association (AHA): Scientific statement on cardiovascular disease risk factors in youth with diabetes mellitus (2014)
●AHA and ADA: Scientific statement on type 1 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease (2014)
●ADA: Scientific statement on socioecological determinants of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes (2013)
●ADA and Endocrine Society (ES): Consensus statement on hypoglycemia and diabetes (2013)
●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Clinical practice guideline for management of newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in children and adolescents (2013)
●Pediatric Endocrine Society (PES): Position article and guidelines on hemoglobin A1c measurement for the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes in children (2012)
●ADA: Diabetes care for emerging adults – Recommendations for transition from pediatric to adult diabetes care systems (2011)
Europe
●European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) and American Diabetes Association (ADA): Consensus report on automated insulin delivery – Benefits, challenges, and recommendations (2022)
●ADA and EASD: Consensus report on precision medicine in diabetes (2020)
●EASD and International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD): Position statement on glucose management for exercise using continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) and intermittently scanned CGM (isCGM) systems in type 1 diabetes (2020)
United Kingdom
●Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN): Toolkit for optimising glycaemic control in people with type 1 diabetes (2024)
●Association of Children's Diabetes Clinicians (ACDC), British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (BSPED), and National Children and Young People's (CYP) Diabetes Network: Clinical guideline for a practical approach to management of type 2 diabetes in children and young people (CYP) under 18 years, version 2 (2023)
●ACDC, BSPED, National CYP Diabetes Network: Clinical guideline for a practical approach to the self management of diabetes as an inpatient for children and young people under 18 years, version 2 (2023)
●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on diabetes (type 1 and type 2) in children and young people – Diagnosis and management (2015, updated 2023)
●ACDC: Clinical guideline for management of hypoglycaemia in children and young people with type 1 diabetes, version 5 (2022)
●NICE: Quality standard on diabetes in children and young people (2016, updated 2022)
●ACDC: Clinical guideline for care of children under 18 years with diabetes mellitus undergoing surgery or MRI under GA, version 4 (2021)
●ACDC: Clinical guideline for care of the well child, newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus, version 5 (2021)
●ACDC, BSPED, and National CYP Diabetes Network: Clinical guideline for the management of type 1 diabetes mellitus during illness in children and young people under 18 years (sick day rules), version 5 (2021)
●BSPED: Guideline for the management of children and young people under the age of 18 years with diabetic ketoacidosis (2021)
●ACDC, BSPED, and National CYP Diabetes Network: Clinical guideline for a practical approach to the management of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM)/real-time flash glucose scanning (FGS) in type 1 diabetes mellitus in children and young people under 18 years, version 4 (2019)
●ACDC, BSPED, and National CYP Diabetes Network: Clinical guideline on a practical approach to the management of steroid, chemotherapy or transplant induced hyperglycaemia or diabetes in children and young people under 18 years in the acute or inpatient setting, version 1 (2019)
●NICE: Guideline for diabetic foot problems – Prevention and management (2015, updated 2019)
●Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) and Joint British Diabetes Societies (JBDS): Guidelines for the management of diabetes in adults and children with psychiatric disorders in inpatient settings (2018)
●NICE: Guideline for type 2 diabetes – Prevention in people at high risk (2012, updated 2017)
●SIGN: National clinical guideline for management of diabetes (2010, updated 2017)
●SIGN: National clinical guideline for pharmacological management of glycaemic control in people with type 2 diabetes (2017)
India
●Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP): Standard treatment guidelines on diabetes mellitus (2022)
●Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR): Guidelines for management of type 2 diabetes (2018)
●Indian Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology (ISPAE): Clinical practice guidelines for management of type 1 diabetes in children and adolescents (2017)
Australia–New Zealand
●Australasian Paediatric Endocrine Group (APEG): Guidelines for screening, assessment and management of type 2 diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents (2020)
●APEG: Position statement on the use of continuous glucose monitoring systems for children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes at school and preschool (2019)
●APEG and Australian Diabetes Society (ADS): National evidence-based clinical care guidelines for type 1 diabetes in children, adolescents, and adults (2011)
Japan
●[In English] Japanese Diabetes Society (JDS): Japanese clinical practice guideline for diabetes 2019 (published 2020)
●[In Japanese] JDS: Diabetes treatment guidelines (2019)
