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  Do you keep track of where you rotate your CGM site?
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  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  It really depends on when I catch it and how low it is. If I see it early enough I treat it and just watch it to make sure it is recovering.
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  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  I usually think "oh goody I can have some chocolate!"
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  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  Very anxious when it is really low, but not anxious at all when it is just mildly low.
- 16 hours ago
  
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  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  My anxiety kicks in a bit when low treatments seem to take forever to have an impact.
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  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  It depends on how fast it is dropping and how quickly it responds to my attempts to raise it back to normal.
- 16 hours, 18 minutes ago
  
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  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  It all depends on how low, where I am and what I'm doing and if I can easily eat/drink fast acting carbs to treat it. I only get anxious if it's taking a long time to bring bg level up to my target of 110 and I'm out in public.
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- 16 hours, 18 minutes ago
  
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  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  Depends on how low and what I am doing. Like today I had one at work where Dexcom said low but because I could treat and had two people with them, aware of it, I was okay.
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  Depends on how low and for how long. Generally not anxious as much as sweating and foggy headed.
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  My anxiety kicks in a bit when low treatments seem to take forever to have an impact.
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  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  I usually get more annoyed than anxious...It typically happens when I'm in the middle of working! I work as a private clarinet instructor so it's just me and the student and it's really difficult to string words together when I'm low.
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  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
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  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  I usually think "oh goody I can have some chocolate!"
- 18 hours, 15 minutes ago
  
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  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  Two Reese's Peanut Butter cups for me 😊
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  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
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Longitudinal Trends in CGM and Pump Use: Real-World Data from the T1D Exchange QI Collaborative

T1D Exchange, 2 years ago 0 1 min read

Ebekozien, O, Mungmode, A, Miyazaki, B, Rompicherla, S, Lyons, S, Alwazeer, M, Sarhis, J, Mekhoubad, A, Desimone, M, Akturk, H

Background: The T1D Exchange Quality Improvement Collaborative (T1DX-QI) is a learning network of over forty US type 1 diabetes clinics. Participating clinics share data for benchmarking, population health trends and monitoring quality improvement activities.

Method: T1DX-QI clinics complete an extensive data-mapping process to submit reports from clinic electronic medical records (EMR) system. The T1DX EMR database contains information for over 55,000 US patients and allows for robust population health analysis including percentage of patients using a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) or insulin pump. The percentage of patients using either device was calculated from 2016-2021.

Results: From 2016 to 2021, the percentage of patients using CGM increased from 59% to 72%. Over the same time period, the percentage of patients using pumps remained stable (median 54%) . For both devices, racial disparity persisted: there was a 27% and 31% difference in percentage of non-Hispanic White (NHW) and non-Hispanic Black (NHB) patients using CGM in 2016 (N = 17431) and 2021 (N = 20908) , respectively; in the same years, there was a 36% and 37% difference in percentage of NHW and NHB patients using a pump.

Conclusion: While there is robust increase in diabetes device uptake, inequities persist in access to these technologies.

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Tags #CGM #EHR & EMR Data #Journal – Diabetes 2022

Implementation of Psychosocial Screening in the Type 1 Diabetes Exchange Quality Improvement (T1DX-QI) Network

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