Clinical outcomes associated with referral-based continuous glucose monitoring using a central standardized interpretation strategy.

Background: Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices can present a challenge to health providers given the sheer amount of data collected. A referral-based system using a centralized standard interpretation completed by a specialist could highlight the most pertinent information and provide recommendations.

Subjects And Methods: Professional (retrospective) CGM reports from an outpatient academic endocrinology clinic were formally interpreted by one of two specialists.

Determinants of the accuracy of continuous glucose monitoring in non-critically ill patients with heart failure or severe hyperglycemia.

Background: The accuracy of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) in non-critically ill hospitalized patients with heart failure or severe hyperglycemia (SH) is unknown.

Methods: Hospitalized patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) exacerbation (receiving IV or subcutaneous insulin) or SH requiring insulin infusion were compared to outpatients referred for retrospective CGM.

Results: Forty-three patients with CHF, 15 patients with SH, and 88 outpatients yielded 470, 164, and 2150 meter-sensor pairs, respectively.