- Easy to understand - Paper-based Blood glucose analysis tool.
- Test 7 times a day for 3 days with your Accu-Chek® Blood Glucose Monitor.
- Beneficial for all Diabetic patients.
- Gives medical professionals a rationale to persuade patients to do SMBG.
Features -
Benefits for Doctors
- Improved basis for therapeutic decisions.
- Helps to visualize overall glycemic control including fasting, pre-prandial and postprandial levels.
- Helps to see the whole glucose picture.
- Enables more effective, personalized diabetes counseling.
- Allows for more targeted therapeutic recommendations and modifications.
- Being confronted with the visualization of glycemic variability makes it harder to ignore the need to intensify therapy.
Easy integration into normal course of office life
- Encourages immediate in-office counselling.
- Impact on office workflow and exam length is minimal.
- Meter download not needed but can be used for complementary analysis and electronic record retention.
Highly self-educational for the patient
- Clearly shows patient the connection between food and blood glucose values.
- May enhance patient motivation leading to better compliance.
Benefits
- High convenience
- Simple to understand.
- Easy-to-use tool.
- Short-term challenge for 3 consecutive days.
- Easy to use with regular monitoring plan.
Self-education tool
- Offers more tangible understanding of the relationship between blood glucose levels and factors affecting blood glucose levels
- Food
- Medication
- Can easily identify trends and patterns in blood glucose levels
- May enhance patient motivation for regular blood glucose testing
Better way-of-life
- Basis for better control of glycemic variability
- Can motivate patient to more actively manage their diabetes
- Can motivate patient to modify their lifestyle
- Can ultimately lead to reduced diabetes-related complications