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5 Top Diabetes Apps for Patients and their PCPs
Author(s)Ted W. James, MD
Help your patients with diabetes help themselves. See 5 apps at-a-glance you can discuss at the next visit.
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How to recommend a mobile app that may help a patient with diabetes better manage this complex disease?First, consider how well an app helps to simplify daily diabetes management and how many self-care behaviors the app supports or encourages.The 5 apps selected for the review below support a full range of daily actions essential to achieving and maintaining physical and emotional health while dealing with all forms of diabetes.
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