Social media and diabetes: Can facebook and skype improve glucose control in patients with type 1 diabetes on pump therapy? one-year experience

Diabetes Care

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2015, Pages e51-e52

  Petrovski, Goran ^a   Zivkovic, Marija ^a   Stratrova, Slavica Subeska ^a  

^a SS CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY OF SKOPJE   (Macedonia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES CONTROL; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE SENSOR; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN PUMP; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOTE; SOCIAL MEDIA; YOUNG ADULT; BLOOD; COMMUNITY CARE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; INSULIN INFUSION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UTILIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSULIN; INSULIN INFUSION SYSTEMS; MALE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOFTWARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941780254     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc14-2487     Document Type: Note

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