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What is Blood Sugar (Glucose) Monitoring?

The amount of glucose (sugar) in your blood changes throughout the day and night. Your levels will vary depending upon when, what and how much you have eaten, and whether or not you have exercised. A fasting test is done after having no food or liquid for 8 hours. A random test is done anytime.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Diabetes Type 2 14 3 Efficacy_major Efficacy_slight Efficacy_cant_tell
Evaluation/monitoring 11 3 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate
Other 6 1 Efficacy_moderate
Diabetes Type 1 4 2 Efficacy_major
Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) 4 0
General health 2 1 Efficacy_moderate

See all 42 patients currently having Blood Sugar (Glucose) Monitoring

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 0
Mild
 4
None
 6

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Blood Sugar (Glucose) Monitoring

Pain in fingers 2
Pain 1
None 1

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Blood Sugar (Glucose) Monitoring

Always
 5 50%
Usually
 2 20%
Sometimes
 2 20%
Never
 1 10%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Blood Sugar (Glucose) Monitoring

Very
 2 20%
Somewhat
 1 10%
A little
 5 50%
Not at all
 2 20%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Blood Sugar (Glucose) Monitoring

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 3 43%
< $25
 4 57%

Report created on May 28, 2012.