Who Would Have Guessed It?
Roche offered an opportunity to hear the results of a new research study on T2 and self monitoring. Dr. Andreas Stuhr was going to be presenting and being a fan of Andreas, I joining the conference call this afternoon.
This was a study of type 2 diabetics who do not use insulin. There were two groups studied. Both groups had similar access to testing equipment, doctors and heath care visits. The difference was one group used a paper based tool to put the data from blood test into context. Both groups lowered their A1C. So being in a study and having access to a meter and doctors lowers A1C. The group with a structure tool to collect data and talk about it with their health care team had a more significant drop in A1c than the control.
The tool is simply a paper form. It is available free here. You don’t need a Roche meter to use it but you need a meter. The tool itself is not the conversations with a health care provider. It may be a place to start.
So while it sounds a lot like "we hold there truths to be self evident" putting context around the data you collect can provide better results.
Context Matters.
Roche offered an opportunity to hear the results of a new research study on T2 and self monitoring. Dr. Andreas Stuhr was going to be presenting and being a fan of Andreas, I joining the conference call this afternoon.
This was a study of type 2 diabetics who do not use insulin. There were two groups studied. Both groups had similar access to testing equipment, doctors and heath care visits. The difference was one group used a paper based tool to put the data from blood test into context. Both groups lowered their A1C. So being in a study and having access to a meter and doctors lowers A1C. The group with a structure tool to collect data and talk about it with their health care team had a more significant drop in A1c than the control.
The tool is simply a paper form. It is available free here. You don’t need a Roche meter to use it but you need a meter. The tool itself is not the conversations with a health care provider. It may be a place to start.
So while it sounds a lot like "we hold there truths to be self evident" putting context around the data you collect can provide better results.
Context Matters.
/begin disclosureI have been to Roche’s diabetes social media summits. They pay my way. I speak my mind. I suspect there are still photos of my sign from last summer's conference floating around with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back to be used as evidence against me. (Feel free to link the photo in a comment if you have it, or Alice's Restaurant for the circles and arrows. As a hint the sign was two words and the words had the same first letters as Blood Sugar.) Roche invited me back - go figure. They doesn’t push product info at us. So much so that as a group we expressed and interest in hearing news from them. This call to the social media summit group was part of the sharing we asked for.
/end disclosure
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