Counterpoint: Self-monitoring of blood glucose in type 2 diabetic patients not receiving insulin: A waste of money

Diabetes Care

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1531-1533

  Davidson, Mayer B ^a,b  

^a KING DREW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIET; INSULIN TREATMENT; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATIENT COUNSELING; SELF MONITORING; SHORT SURVEY;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD GLUCOSE SELF-MONITORING; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; MEDICARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 19944384586     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.28.6.1531     Document Type: Short Survey

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