Bayer Diabetes Care
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Events and Research
Bayer believes in the need for continuing health education both for your patients' care and your professional development. We've gathered some information on events and research that will help you stay updated with the latest on diabetes.
Events
The following are diabetes-related conferences being held across the country in 2008. All the events are attended by industry professionals and experts, which provides for an excellent learning environment.
American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists 17th Annual Meeting and Clinical Congress
Date: May 14-18, 2008
Location: Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort, Orlando, FL
Contact: Tina Kisner or Siobhan Egan
tkisner@aace.com, segan@aace.com
Website: www.aace.com
American Diabetes Association 68th Scientific Session
Date: June 6-10, 2008
Location: San Francisco, CA
Contact: Get more information about registration.
Website: www.diabetes.org
American Association of Diabetes Educators 35th Annual Meeting and Exhibition
Date: August 6-9, 2008
Location: Washington, DC
Contact: Get more information about registration.
Website: www.diabeteseducator.org
Research
For many years, Bayer has sought to demonstrate through research studies how its blood glucose meters could meet the needs of patients with diabetes. The objective of the study below was to determine inaccuracies of miscoded blood glucose (BG) meters and potential errors in insulin dose based on values from these meters.
The study concludes that meter coding errors may result in significant insulin dosing errors. And that to avoid error, patients should be instructed to code their meters correctly or be advised to use an autocoded meter that showed superior performance over manually, correctly coded meters in this study.
Significant Insulin Dose Errors May Occur if Blood Glucose Results Are Obtained from Miscoded Meters
Raine CH, Schrock LE, Edelman SV, et al.
J Diabetes Sci Technol 2007; 1: 205-10.
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