What is Blood Sugar (Glucose) Monitoring?

An example of 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 & Perceived Effectiveness

Reasons and Perceived effectiveness
Perceived Effectiveness
Purpose # of patients # of patients with evaluations
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Diabetes Type 2 16 3 Efficacy_major Efficacy_slight Efficacy_cant_tell
Evaluation/monitoring 15 3 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate
Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) 5 0
Diabetes Type 1 4 2 Efficacy_major
General health 2 1 Efficacy_moderate
Non-diabetic Hypoglycemia 1 0

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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
3 30%
Sometimes
1 10%
Never
1 10%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Blood Sugar (Glucose) Monitoring

Very
2 20%
Somewhat
0 0%
A little
6 60%
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 38%
< $25
5 63%

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2 patient evaluations for Blood Sugar (Glucose) Monitoring

Purpose: Diabetes Type 1 (Started Nov 01, 2008)
Date Dosage Perceived effectiveness Side Effects Adherence Burden
Nov 24, 2010 Daily Led_efficacy_4Led_efficacy_4Led_efficacy_4Led_efficacy_4Major NoneNoneNoneNoneNone AlwaysAlwaysAlwaysAlwaysAlways VeryVeryVeryVeryVery
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Purpose: Diabetes Type 2 (Started Oct 12, 2008)
Date Dosage Perceived effectiveness Side Effects Adherence Burden
Dec 18, 2008 Daily ?Can't tell MildMildMildMildMild AlwaysAlwaysAlwaysAlwaysAlways A littleA littleA littleA littleA little
Side effects:
Pain in fingers
Date
Dec 18, 2008
Advice & Tips
costly strips for meter
Cost
$25-49 monthly
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