Health Care Professionals’ Perspectives on Use of Diabetes Technologies for Managing Visually Impaired Patients With Diabetes
Authors' conclusion
The CGM is the preferred glucose monitoring method for managing visually impaired patients with diabetes. Providers face many challenges of initiating CGM in these high-risk patients. Voice-activation feature of G6 CGM is underutilized and providers who used the system reported positive outcomes in visually impaired patients.
Study context
- Population
- US health care providers seeing visually impaired patients with diabetes and using diabetes technologies66 completed and analysed
- Participants
- 79 participants
- Outcome
- Providers' preferences and challenges to prescribing diabetes technologies for visually impaired patients
Methodological detailssurvey-based
- Survey-based
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Providers recommending continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) for visually impaired patients
96%
Providers aware of voice-activation feature of Dexcom G6
55%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Provider-reported benefits of CGM voice-activation feature · six months
- Providers reporting HbA1c reductions of >0.5%
- 87%
- Providers reporting less hypoglycemia
- 45%
Original publication
Health Care Professionals’ Perspectives on Use of Diabetes Technologies for Managing Visually Impaired Patients With Diabetes. J Diabetes Sci Technol. Published 4 June 2022. doi:10.
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