Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34137289›Full record

ArticleJournal of diabetes science and technology2022

Diabetes Technology and Waste: A Complex Story.

Lutz Heinemann, David C Klonoff

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of diabetes science and technology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Continuous glucose monitoring in type 2 diabetes: a systematic review of barriers and opportunities for care improvement.International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care · 2025
    Pooled it
  2. Observational
  3. Criteria for Personalised Choice of a Continuous Glucose Monitoring System: An Expert Opinion.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2024
    Article
  4. Diabetes-Technology and the Environment: What Do We Have to Consider?Journal of diabetes science and technology · 2023
    Article
  5. Input of Patients for New Diabetes Technology Products.Journal of diabetes science and technology · 2021
    Article
  6. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Lutz HeinemannScience consulting in Diabetes GmbH, Kaarst, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2493-1304
David C KlonoffDiabetes Technology Society, Burlingame, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6394-6862

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medical products are used increasingly by patients with diabetes as they make diabetes therapy more safe and efficient; subsequently such products are produced and used millions of times each day. This in turn means that the products themselves and the packaging adds up to a huge amount of waste, mainly plastic waste. Not only patients are well aware of this and start to complain about this, in view of the climate change the political pressure to change the situation is high and will increase further. A better balance between performance of the products and their environmental impact has to be found; however, diabetes technology and waste is a complex story with many different aspects.

Indexed as

Diabetes MellitusHumansPlasticsProduct PackagingTechnologyPlasticsCGM systemsdiabetes therapyinsulin therapypenspumps

Identifiers

PMID34137289
PMCPMC9631511

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.