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ArticleJournal of diabetes science and technology2016

Use of Color Range Indicator Technology on Point-of-Care Meters May Ease Self-Management of Blood Glucose.

Marc C Torjman

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Article in Journal of diabetes science and technology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Marc C TorjmanSidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University and Hospitals, Philadelphia, PA, USA Marc.Torjman@jefferson.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The study by Grady et al is timely and exciting striving toward better understanding of relevant human factors in the design of their glucose meter displays. Their investigation focused on meaningful device optimization objectives that could be important to improving diabetes self-management. Grady et al are to be complimented for their development of a PC-based computer simulator to further our understanding of how patients interpret their glucose meter readings. What is interesting is that important, and hopefully more appropriate decisions, can be made daily or hourly when a meter is capable of displaying the most relevant information in a manner that will prompt the user toward more favorable glucose management decisions.

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Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2Self-ManagementBlood GlucoseBlood Glucose Self-MonitoringGlucoseHumansPoint-of-Care SystemsBlood GlucoseGlucoseColorSure™ technologyglucose metersPC-based computer simulatorself-monitoring of blood glucose

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PMID27605594
PMCPMC5094345

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