Empowered Patient Podcast Addressing Critical Gaps in Diabetes Management and Injection Technique with Dr. Eden Miller Diabetes Nation
Dr. Eden Miller is an osteopathic board-certified family practitioner, a type 1 diabetic, and Founder of the nonprofit organization Diabetes Nation. The guidelines for injection technique have not been updated in 10 years, and poor injection can lead to improper medication absorption and other complications. The recently released FITTER Forward Guidelines address established approaches for clinicians and patients to improve injection practices, especially for those using injectable therapies such as insulin or GLP-1 agonists. This initiative was brought together by embecta, which worked with Dr. Miller and other experts to revise the guidelines.
Eden explains, "So the FITTER Forward Guidelines are taking the concept of injection technique and injection instruction, and giving it a fresh new look, a new peering back into something that many of us as clinicians kind of feel that we have nailed down. But what we have found with looking into communicating with patients, how to do injections, and how to maximize their technique, we needed to revisit it. So we convened a consensus of experts across many different disciplines of medicine, as well as engineers. We took a look at the data, took a look at the person who's using injection techniques, especially in the field of diabetes, either with insulin or with non-insulin agents. We gave it a fresh new look to help clinicians empower their patients to achieve the best possible results with injectable therapies."
"I think it spans the gamut. We always want to start people out on the right foot. The FITTER Forward Guidelines and resources are going to be a great way for our clinicians to freshen up. So when they do have a new patient who is very naive to injection technique, they may have a lot of barriers or preconceived ideas that really get in the way. They think it's going to hurt. They think it's hard to do. They don't know what to do with clothing. They think they have to go into the bathroom to get it done. So we have opportunities both for new users, but we also have the opportunity to go back to established users. "
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