Assessing achievement and maintenance of glycemic control by patients initiating basal insulin.

Objective: Describe characteristics of diabetic patients who initiated basal insulin and assess their glycemic control.

Research Design And Methods: Physician encounters in the General Electric EMR Database (2005-2010) were assessed for patients with type II diabetes (T2DM) who initiated basal insulin between February 2006 and August 2009, with initiation defined as no prescription record of insulin in prior 15 months. Patients were followed for an average 2.