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Diabetes Research

and Clinical Practice

journal homepage: ate/diabres
Brief report

Do interventions by allied health professionals

discussing adherence to insulin improve this
adherence?
a, b

. Doggrell *, V. Chan
a

School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Gardens Point,

GPO 2434, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia
b

School of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Gardens Point,

GPO 2434, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t

Article history: It is assumed that interventions to improve the adherence to insulin by allied health


Received 19 April 2013 professionals discussing adherence to insulin will improve this adherence. However, there


Received in revised form is little evidence to support this, as interventions by a pharmacist or nurse educator have not


7 March 2014 been shown conclusively to improve adherence to insulin.


Accepted 22 March 2014 # 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

Available online 12 April 2014
Keywords:
Adherence
Diabetes
Health professionals
Insulin
Insulin pens
1. Introduction

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