Clinical Practice Experiences Using a Professional Diabetes Management Ecosystem During COVID
Authors' conclusion
Diabetes management solutions, such as OTR ecosystem, supported telemedicine during the pandemic and will continue to play a valuable role in patient care beyond the pandemic.
Study context
- Population
- Health care professionals (HCPs) from 21 European clinical institutions using the OneTouch Reveal (OTR) ecosystem for telemedicine in diabetes during COVID21 European institutions
- Outcome
- Telemedicine use with the OTR ecosystem during the pandemic
- Follow-up
- During the pandemic
Methodological detailsmulticentre, 21 European clinical institutions, Survey information on telemedicine collated; HCPs joined virtual meetings on the OTR ecosystem; selected HCPs provided clinical case studies
- Multicentre
- 21 European clinical institutions
- Survey information on telemedicine collated; HCPs joined virtual meetings on the OTR ecosystem; selected HCPs provided clinical case studies
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Increase in remote consultations, 21 European clinics
- nearly 50%
- Remote consultation increase, Belgium
- 24%
- Remote consultation increase, Iberia
- 65%
- Remote consultation increase, Germany
- 34%
- Remote consultation increase, Italy
- 54%
- OTR app users with T1D
- 52%
- OTR app users with T2D
- 48%
- Remote connection by telephone
- 60%
- Remote connection by email
- 19%
- Remote connection by video chat
- 10%
- Remote connection by text only
- 3%
- Remote connection by a mix of methods
- 8%
- HCPs reviewing patient data during consultations
- 45%
- HCPs reviewing patient data before consultations
- 25%
- HCPs indicating digital ecosystems like OTR would become their standard of care
- 55%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
- Patient case studies using OTR ecosystem provided by selected HCPs
- 5
Original publication
Clinical Practice Experiences Using a Professional Diabetes Management Ecosystem During COVID. J Diabetes Sci Technol. Published 26 December 2021. doi:10.
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