Breaking down barriers to initiating insulin: Insulin prescription pad.

Many patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) require insulin therapy to achieve and maintain glycemic control.1 Family physicians provide most of the care for these patients and are usually the first point of contact in the insulin conversation. Therefore, it is important that family physicians have the knowledge and skills to initiate and titrate insulin, and any additional tools they can use to assist them in the process would be beneficial. In this article, we describe a practical and educational tool to aid primary care physicians and diabetes specialists in insulin initiation and titration in patients with T2DM.