Life-long Tele-monitoring of Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Central Greece

Summary

To evaluate whether patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus can be followed by simplified, centralized and large scale tele-monitoring of blood glucose levels and blood pressure, and whether this intervention produces health and economic benefits when introduced without major changes to the existing organization of a large tertiary care center.

Conditions

• Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Telemonitoring of patients with diabetes type 2

Telemonitoring of the patients's blood glucose level measurements using a the tele-glucose meter

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Ministry for Health and Social Solidarity, Greece

  collaborator OTHER

• Municipality of Trikala, Greece

  collaborator OTHER

• e-Trikala S.A.

  collaborator INDUSTRY

• Cities Net SA

  collaborator INDUSTRY

• Institute of Biomedical Research & Technology, Larissa, Greece

  collaborator OTHER

• Institute of Communications and Computer Systems, Athens, Greece

  collaborator OTHER

• Alexander Technological Educational Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Thessaly

  collaborator OTHER

• Regional Health Authority of Sterea & Thessaly

  lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

• Georgios Koukoulis, MD, PhD · Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases Department - Regional University Hospital of Larisa

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2011-03-31

Primary Completion

2013-12-31

Completion

2014-01-31

Countries

• Greece

Study Locations