Polls

From your experience, which is the best way to educate your patients who have type 2 diabetes and do not take insulin?

- Individual personal classes
- Group classes
- Online classes
- Recommend a book
- Brochures and pamphlets

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Your patient has been checking their blood glucose after a meal and then using the reading to correct with insulin. What do you do?

- Wait 3 hours since their last injection of rapid insulin
- Wait 4 hours
- Wait 5 hours
- Wait 6 or more hours
- Have them use a calculation to adjust for onboard insulin, then use that in their calculation to correct

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Do you think that having your patients who have type 2 and are not on insulin wear a CGM can improve their numbers? Follow the link to see if you and your colleagues agree.

In your experience, what have most studies about CGM demonstrated?

- HbA1c is lower in CGM users regardless of age or type of insulin delivery.
- Patients using MDI + CGM have greater reductions in HbA1c than those using CSII + CGM.
- Reductions in glycemic variability and time spent in hypoglycemia are not significantly different between SAP and MDI/RT-CGM therapy groups.
- All of the above

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From your experience: What do you tell your CGM patients they should consider?

A. Determining how long it takes for a change in basal to have an impact on glucose
B. Monitoring 2-hour postprandial excursion to see how well bolus worked
C. Formally testing basals by skipping a meal
D. A and B
E. A, B, and C

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In your opinion, which diabetes patients are the best candidates for CGM?

- Patients on more than five diabetes medications
- Patients unable to achieve their HbA1c goal despite focused efforts
- Patients with frequent or extreme glucose excursions (>200 mg/dL, within day or day-to-day)
- or All of the above?

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What percentage of your patients with diabetes would benefit from Real-Time CGM? 0 to 25%, 26% to 50%, 51% to 75%, or 76% to 100%? Follow the link and see how you compare to your colleagues.

Is medication compliance a major issue with your patients? Follow the link to see what your colleagues say.

For your patients who use CGM software, do you review the reports generated by the CGM software? Follow the link to see how you compare to your colleagues.

Do you have a program in place to improve medication compliance? Follow the link to see how you and your colleagues compare.