Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose and Hypoglycemia-Related Hospitalization in a Population-Based Cohort of Canadian Patients With Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes.

Objectives: The aim of this work was to determine whether: 1) blood glucose test strip use in the population is associated with hypoglycemia hospitalization rates, and 2) blood glucose test strip use among individuals is associated with a reduced risk of hypoglycemia hospitalization.

Methods: Administrative databases from Saskatchewan, Canada, were used to ascertain population-level hypoglycemia hospitalizations and test strip utilization over the period from 1996 to 2014. For objective 1, a generalized linear model with generalized estimating equations was fit to provincial data stratified by age group, sex and year.

Pharmacists teaching in family medicine residency programs: National survey.

Objective: To determine the percentage of family medicine residency programs that have pharmacists directly involved in teaching residents, the types and extent of teaching provided by pharmacists in family medicine residency programs, and the primary source of funding for the pharmacists.

Design: Web-based survey.

Setting: One hundred fifty-eight resident training sites within the 17 family medicine residency programs in Canada.