The impact of blood glucose self-monitoring on metabolic control and quality of life in type 2 diabetic patients: An urgent need for better educational strategies

Diabetes Care

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1870-1877

  Franciosi, Monica ^a   Pellegrini, Fabio ^a   De Berardis, Giorgia ^a   Belfiglio, Maurizio ^a   Cavaliere, Donatella ^a   Nardo, Barbara D I ^a   Greenfield, Sheldon ^b   Kaplan, Sherrie H ^b   Sacco, Michele ^a   Tognoni, Gianni ^a   Valentini, Miriam ^a   Nicolucci, Antonio ^a  

^a Consorzio Mario Negri Sud ^*  (Italy)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; INSULIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; ITALY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARD;

AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; BLOOD GLUCOSE SELF-MONITORING; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035512747     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.24.11.1870     Document Type: Article

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