Benefits and Limitations of Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose

Benefits and limitations of self-monitoring of blood glucose.

Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) provides significant benefits to patients with diabetes and their healthcare providers. SMBG is increasingly recognized as an integral part of intensive therapy for all forms of diabetes. This article discusses the clinical utility of SMBG in type 1 (T1DM) and type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and looks at the relationship between SMBG and improved overall glycemic ...

Self-monitoring of blood glucose during pregnancy: indications and limitations

Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) is an important tool to treat diabetes during pregnancy. However, proper implementation of SMBG in pregnant women requires understanding of its applications and limitations. This article reviews issues related to the implementation, efficacy, and accuracy of SMBG and discusses factors that can confound results of SMBG during pregnancy.

an investigation of the impact of self monitoring on langauge teachers motivational practice and its effect on learners motivation

the central purpose of this study was to conduct a case study about the role of self monitoring in teacher’s use of motivational strategies. furthermore it focused on how these strategies affected students’ motivational behavior. although many studies have been done to investigate teachers’ motivational strategies use (cheng & d?rnyei, 2007; d?rnyei & csizer, 1998; green, 2001, guilloteaux & d?...

[Self-monitoring of blood glucose].

As the point of care testing(POCT), devices for self-monitoring blood glucose(SMBG) are most common. The problems in SMBG can be found in the popularity of SMBG itself. The reasons for the problems are three. First is the innovation of technology. As each maker has developed devices based on their own intention, device to device difference is too large, so that the standardization is needed. Th...

Routine self-monitoring of blood glucose.