A Team-Based Online Game Improves Blood Glucose Control in Veterans With Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized Controlled Trial

CONCLUSIONS
Patients with diabetes who were randomized to an online game delivering DSME demonstrated sustained and meaningful HbA1c improvements. Among patients with poorly controlled diabetes, the DSME game reduced HbA1c by a magnitude comparable to starting a new diabetes medication. Online games may be a scalable approach to improve outcomes among geographically dispersed patients with diabetes and other chronic diseases.

Source: Diabetes Care - August 22, 2017 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Kerfoot, B. P.; Gagnon, D. R.; McMahon, G. T.; Orlander, J. D.; Kurgansky, K. E.; Conlin, P. R. Tags: Diabetes Education Emerging Technologies and Therapeutics Source Type: research