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Acute and chronic
Acute and chronic describe how a health problem starts and how long it lasts. An acute problem comes on quickly, is often intense and lasts a short time, while a chronic problem is ongoing and long lasting, often for more than 3 months.
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Ahpra
AHPRA, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, works with 15 National Boards to regulate 16 health professions, including medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physiotherapy and podiatry. Its public register lets you check that a practitioner is registered and allowed to practise.
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Allied health
Allied health is the group of university-trained health professionals, other than doctors, nurses and dentists, who assess, treat and help people manage health conditions. It includes dietitians, exercise physiologists, physiotherapists, podiatrists and diabetes educators.
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Ambulatory glucose profile (AGP) report
An ambulatory glucose profile (AGP) report is a standard one-page summary of CGM data. It overlays many days of readings onto a single 24-hour picture so that daily patterns are easy to see.
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AUSDRISK
AUSDRISK, the Australian Type 2 Diabetes Risk Assessment Tool, is a short questionnaire that estimates your chance of developing type 2 diabetes in the next five years.
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Automated insulin delivery (AID)
Automated insulin delivery (AID), often called hybrid closed loop, links an insulin pump with a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) so that software adjusts insulin automatically every few minutes based on sensor glucose.
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Cholesterol
Cholesterol is a fatty substance carried in the blood that the body needs to build cells and make hormones. Too much of the wrong kind builds up in blood vessel walls and raises the risk of heart attack and stroke.
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Clinical governance
Clinical governance is the set of relationships and responsibilities a health service puts in place between its leaders, health care providers, workforce, patients and other stakeholders to make sure care is safe and of high quality. Everyone in the service shares responsibility for it.
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Closed loop
Closed loop describes an insulin system in which a CGM, an insulin pump and software work together so that glucose readings automatically decide how much insulin is given, without a person setting each dose.
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Comorbidity
A comorbidity is another health condition a person has at the same time as the main condition being assessed or treated. For example, high blood pressure or kidney disease may be listed as comorbidities in a report about type 2 diabetes.
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Cystic fibrosis-related diabetes (CFRD)
Cystic fibrosis-related diabetes (CFRD) is a type of diabetes that develops in some people with cystic fibrosis when pancreas damage means not enough insulin is made. It shares features with type 1 and type 2 diabetes but is a different condition.
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Home Medicines Review (HMR)
A Home Medicines Review (HMR) is a government-funded review of all your medicines, carried out in your home by an accredited pharmacist after a referral from your doctor. It is provided at no cost to you.
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Hyperglycaemia
Hyperglycaemia means blood glucose above your target range. Short spells happen to most people living with diabetes; persistently high levels raise the risk of long-term complications and, for people who use insulin, can lead to diabetic ketoacidosis.
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Hypoglycaemia
Hypoglycaemia, or a hypo, is a blood glucose level below 4.0 mmol/L. It mainly affects people who take insulin or certain diabetes tablets such as sulfonylureas, and it needs treating straight away.
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Immunotherapy-induced type 1 diabetes
Immunotherapy-induced type 1 diabetes is an uncommon side effect of cancer immunotherapy medicines called immune checkpoint inhibitors, in which the immune system destroys the insulin-making cells of the pancreas. It often comes on suddenly and needs lifelong insulin.
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Inhaler technique
Inhaler technique is the way you use your puffer or inhaler device so the medicine reaches your lungs. Using the right steps helps you get the full benefit of your asthma or COPD medicine.
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Insulin pump
An insulin pump is a small wearable device that delivers rapid-acting insulin continuously through a fine tube or a patch pod, in place of multiple daily injections.
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Insulin resistance
Insulin resistance means the body's cells respond less well to insulin, so the pancreas has to make more to keep glucose in range. Together with the pancreas gradually making less insulin, it is a key part of how type 2 diabetes develops.
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Medicare allied health visits
With a GP Chronic Condition Management Plan and a referral from your GP, you can claim a Medicare rebate for up to five individual allied health visits each calendar year, shared across services such as diabetes education, dietetics, exercise physiology, physiotherapy and podiatry.
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NADC accreditation
NADC accreditation shows a diabetes service has been assessed against national standards set by the National Association of Diabetes Centres (NADC), a division of the Australian Diabetes Society.
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National Diabetes Services Scheme (NDSS)
The National Diabetes Services Scheme (NDSS) is an Australian Government initiative, administered by Diabetes Australia, that gives people living with diabetes access to subsidised supplies, information and support.
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National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) funds supports for Australians with a permanent and significant disability. It can fund allied health, such as physiotherapy, exercise physiology, dietetics and podiatry, when the support relates to the participant's disability.
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Pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT)
Pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy is a prescription medicine taken as capsules with food to replace the digestive enzymes that a damaged or removed pancreas can no longer make, helping the body digest fat, protein and carbohydrate.
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Pancreatitis
Pancreatitis is swelling and irritation (inflammation) of the pancreas, the organ that makes digestive juices and hormones such as insulin. It can be acute, starting suddenly, or chronic, causing gradual long-term damage.
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Pre-diabetes
Pre-diabetes means blood glucose is higher than normal but not high enough for a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. It signals a higher risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease, and that risk can often be reduced.
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Residential Medication Management Review (RMMR)
A Residential Medication Management Review (RMMR) is a government-funded review of the medicines of a permanent resident of an aged care home, carried out by an accredited pharmacist working with the resident's GP.
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Sick day action plan
A sick day action plan is a written plan, made with your diabetes team, that tells you how to manage glucose, ketones, food, fluids and medicines when you are unwell.
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Support at Home
Support at Home is the Australian Government's in-home aged care programme. From 1 November 2025 it replaced Home Care Packages and Short-Term Restorative Care, and it can fund allied health for older people living at home.
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Time in range (TIR)
Time in range (TIR) is the percentage of time your glucose stays within a target range, usually 3.9 to 10.0 mmol/L, measured by a CGM. For most adults living with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, the international target is more than 70% of the time.
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Type 3c diabetes
Type 3c diabetes is diabetes caused by damage to the pancreas, for example from pancreatitis, pancreatic surgery, pancreatic cancer, cystic fibrosis or haemochromatosis. It is also called pancreatogenic diabetes and is often mistaken for type 2 diabetes.
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