background: responsibility for diabetes management tasks must shift from caregivers to adolescents as adolescents grow older. also, family-centered care is a way to provide efficient care for them at home. this study aimed to identify the effect of family-centered care on management of blood glucose levels in adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus (t1dm). methods: this is a pre-experimental ...

Glucose meters (GMs) are routinely used for self-monitoring of blood glucose by patients and for point-of-care glucose monitoring by health care providers in outpatient and inpatient settings. Although widely assumed to be accurate, numerous reports of inaccuracies with resulting morbidity and mortality have been noted. Insulin dosing errors based on inaccurate GMs are most critical. On October...

Several measurements are used to describe the behavior of a diabetic patient’s blood glucose. We describe a new, wavelet-based algorithm that indicates a new measurement called a PLA index could be used to quantify the variability or predictability of blood glucose. This wavelet-based approach emphasizes the shape of a blood glucose graph. Using continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), this measurem...

Patients with end stage renal disease on hemodialysis are at risk for cardiovascular events and increased mortality. Hypertension contributes to these risks and can be difficult to assess due to unreliable blood pressure (BP) measurements at dialysis centers. A clinical practice grant from the American Nephrology Nurses'Association allowed for the purchase of 35 home BP monitors to study the us...