BRIGHT Guidelines on Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose

Authors

  • Abdul Basit Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine Baqai Institute of Diabetology and Endocrinology Baqai Medical University, Plot No. 1-2, II-B, Nazimabad No. 2, Karachi-74600,
  • Asima Khan
  • Riasat Ali Khan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.305.6006

Keywords:

Self Monitoring Blood Glucose, Diabetics, Guidelines.

Abstract

Pakistan, a developing country with limited resources, is having huge burden of diabetes and its complications. The local health care providers face limitations due to the related cost while emphasizing on self monitoring of blood glucose. The lack of health care infrastructure, non-affordability of the patients and non-existence of national guidelines are the most significant obstacles. Having realized these issues we decided to initiate a project of self monitoring of blood glucose,

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Published

2014-07-23

How to Cite

Basit, A., Khan, A., & Khan, R. A. (2014). BRIGHT Guidelines on Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose. Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences, 30(5). https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.305.6006

Issue

Vol. 30 No. 5 (2014): September – October 2014 Pak J Med Sci

Section

Special Communications