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ArticleInternational journal of clinical practice2017

Initiating insulin: How to help people with type 2 diabetes start and continue insulin successfully.

William H Polonsky, Joyce Arsenault, Lawrence Fisher, Pamela Kushner, Eden M Miller, Teresa L Pearson, Mariusz Tracz, Stewart Harris, Norbert Hermanns, Bernd-M Scholz and 4 more

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Article in International journal of clinical practice, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Real-World Effectiveness of My Dose Coach™-Assisted Basal Insulin Titration in People with Type 2 Diabetes in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2025
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  3. Real-World Effectiveness of the Gla-300 + Cap + App Program in Adult Users Living with Type 2 Diabetes in Taiwan.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2024
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  5. Factors influencing insulin initiation in primary care facilities in Cape Town, South Africa.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2023
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  13. Key Strategies for Overcoming Psychological Insulin Resistance in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: The UK Subgroup in the EMOTION Study.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2020
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  14. Best Practices and Tools for Titrating Basal Insulins: Expert Opinion from an Indian Panel via the Modified Delphi Consensus Method.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2020
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  16. Diabetes, Therapeutic Inertia, and Patients' Medication Experience.Diabetes spectrum : a publication of the American Diabetes Association · 2020
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  17. Successful Healthcare Provider Strategies to Overcome Psychological Insulin Resistance in Japanese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

William H PolonskyBehavioral Diabetes Institute, San Diego, CA, USA.
Joyce ArsenaultCIUSSS-Jewish General Hospital Endocrinology, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Lawrence FisherFamily and Community Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Pamela KushnerFamily Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, Irvine, CA, USA.
Eden M MillerHigh Lakes Health Care, Bend, OR, USA.
Teresa L PearsonInnovative Health Care Designs, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Mariusz TraczDepartment of Diabetology and Internal Medicine, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland.
Stewart HarrisWestern Center For Public Health and Family Medicine, Western University, London, ON, Canada.
Norbert HermannsResearch Institute of Diabetes Academy Mergentheim (FIDAM), Bad Mergentheim, Germany.
Bernd-M ScholzDiabetologische Schwerpunktpraxis, Hamburg, Germany.
Robyn K PollomEli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Magaly Perez-NievesEli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Roy Daniel PollomEli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Irene HadjiyianniEli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1472-9017

Funding

Research BaseP30DK063720 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI VAISSE, CHRISTIAN · 2003 to 2019
$21.8M
NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK063720
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2HumansHypoglycemic AgentsInsulinMedication AdherencePatient Education as TopicSelf CareHypoglycemic AgentsInsulin

Identifiers

PMID28735508
PMCPMC5601201

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