Automated glycemic pattern analysis can improve health care professional efficiency and accuracy.

Background: Health care professionals (HCPs) routinely review handwritten blood glucose (BG) logbooks during office visits of patients with diabetes.

Method: In this study, 64 HCPs were asked to assess glycemic patterns and estimate BG averages in six simulated handwritten logbooks. The HCPs then reviewed the pattern logs and averages in six OneTouch® Verio™IQ meters containing corresponding data sets.

Predicting hospital admission and discharge with symptom or function scores in patients with schizophrenia: pooled analysis of a clinical trial extension.

Background: The purpose of this analysis was to evaluate relationships between hospital admission or discharge and scores for symptom or functioning in patients with schizophrenia.

Methods: Data were from three 52-week open-label extensions of the double-blind pivotal trials of paliperidone extended-release (ER). Symptoms and patient function were measured every 4 weeks using the Personal and Social Performance (PSP) scale and the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS).

Reduction in use of healthcare services with combination sulfonylurea and rosiglitazone: findings from the Rosiglitazone Early vs SULfonylurea Titration (RESULT) study.

Objective: To assess and compare healthcare utilization and costs over a 2-year period in older patients (> or = 60 years) with type 2 diabetes receiving combination therapy with rosiglitazone plus a sulfonylurea (glipizide) or progressive up-titration of glipizide monotherapy.

Study Design: Two-year, randomized, double-blind, parallel-group clinical trial.

Patients And Methods: Older type 2 diabetic patients initially receiving submaximal doses of a sulfonylurea were randomized to receive rosiglitazone plus glipizide (n = 115) or up-titrated glipizide monotherapy (n = 110).