Full Description
This book presents the latest advancements in continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), offering a focused and practical guide for clinicians to effectively prescribe, interpret, and integrate CGM data into patient care.
With an emphasis on recent developments, it delivers essential insights into emerging CGM technologies, accuracy metrics, and clinical applications. Continuous Glucose Monitors: A Guide for Primary Care Clinicians:
Covers the most recent CGM devices, including over-the-counter options, and their clinical implications.
Examines accuracy metrics such as MARD, PARD, and error grids for improved data interpretation.
Provides guidance on billing, coding, and insurance considerations to streamline clinical implementation.
Explores CGM efficacy across different populations, including athletes, elderly patients, and individuals with gestational diabetes.
Discusses barriers to adoption, disparities in access, and the future of CGM technology.
This book will be beneficial for graduate and postgraduate students, clinicians, researchers, healthcare professionals, and academicians in the fields of endocrinology, diabetes management, biomedical engineering, and clinical practice.
Contents
Contents
Preface.......................................................................................................................ix
Acknowledgments......................................................................................................x
Chapter 1 History of CGMs..................................................................................1
Chapter 2 Technology .........................................................................................10
Chapter 3 Accuracy.............................................................................................17
Chapter 4 Data Interpretation and Ambulatory Glucose Profile .........................25
Chapter 5 OTC CGMs ........................................................................................32
Chapter 6 Prescription CGM Indications............................................................36
Chapter 7 Efficacy...............................................................................................39
Chapter 8 Billing and Coding .............................................................................46
Chapter 9 Adverse Effects and Interfering Substances.......................................52
Chapter 10 Adoption and Barriers........................................................................56
Chapter 11 Disparities...........................................................................................62
Chapter 12 Insurance Coverage Complexities......................................................64
Chapter 13 Privacy of CGM Data.........................................................................66
Chapter 14 AI + CGM ..........................................................................................70
Chapter 15 Fitness, Athletes, and CGMs..............................................................73
Chapter 16 Research on Psychiatric Effects of CGMs.........................................77
Chapter 17 Controversy ........................................................................................79
Chapter 18 Case Studies .......................................................................................81
Chapter 19 Future Directions................................................................................85
Index........................................................................................................................89
