Automated Glycemic Pattern Analysis: Overcoming Diabetes Clinical Inertia

Automated glycemic pattern analysis: overcoming diabetes clinical inertia.

The OneTouch® Verio™ IQ Meter with PatternAlert™ Technology has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as the first self-glucose monitor that can automatically determine glycemic patterns [high and low pre-meal blood glucose (BG)] for health care providers (HCPs) and patients. In this issue of Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, Katz and coauthors demonstrate that this d...

Family Physician Clinical Inertia in Glycemic Control among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

BACKGROUND Many patients with diabetes do not achieve target values. One of the reasons for this is clinical inertia. The correct explanation of clinical inertia requires a conjunction of patient with physician and health care system factors. Our aim was to determine the rate of clinical inertia in treating diabetes in primary care and association of patient, physician, and health care setting ...

Relationship between patient medication adherence and subsequent clinical inertia in type 2 diabetes glycemic management.

OBJECTIVE Clinical inertia has been identified as a critical barrier to glycemic control in type 2 diabetes. We assessed the relationship between patients' initial medication adherence and subsequent regimen intensification among patients with persistently elevated A1C levels. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We analyzed an inception cohort of 2,065 insured patients with type 2 diabetes who were n...

Overcoming clinical inertia in the management of hypertension.

Evaluation of a New Digital Automated Glycemic Pattern Detection Tool

BACKGROUND Blood glucose meters are reliable devices for data collection, providing electronic logs of historical data easier to interpret than handwritten logbooks. Automated tools to analyze these data are necessary to facilitate glucose pattern detection and support treatment adjustment. These tools emerge in a broad variety in a more or less nonevaluated manner. The aim of this study was to...