General physician management performed according to the current standard diagnostic and therapeutic a procedure called Comprehensive Management of Adult Patients with Pre- Diabetes outpatient health care.
For comprehensive management of the patient with diabetes mellitus is to healthcare professionals and specialist specialist in specialization Department of General Medicine or Doctor with Certification in Work Activity Adolescent medicine. Comprehensive management means screening, diagnostics, stratification, treatment, communication and education.
Pre-diabetics can be diagnosed by fasting glucose testing or oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). After diagnosis pre-diabetes tests are performed at 6 or 12 monthly intervals, including withdrawal of current medical history and complete physical or laboratory history examinations according to the table below. The indication of other tests shall be guided by associated risk factors and diseases.
Source: https://www.standardprocedures.sk/standards-general-medical/
For a positive screening test, the general practitioner sends of the patient to an appropriate diabetes specialist, which then leads to DM-type differential diagnosis and treatment. General physician sends the patient to a specialist also in the worsening of metabolic compensation, especially in the any complications. Glycylated haemoglobin testing on the basis of the general doctor's indication, the health insurance company is covered.
Current wording of standard diagnostic and therapeutic procedure - Comprehensive management of an adult patient with pre-diabetes healthcare is published under General medicine: https://www.standardprocedures.sk/standards-general-medical/.