Personal discovery in diabetes self-management: Discovering cause and effect using self-monitoring data
Journal of Biomedical InformaticsPublished 1 October 2017Open access
Lena Mamykina, Elizabeth Heitkemper, Arlene Smaldone, Rita Kukafka, Heather Cole-Lewis, Patricia G. Davidson
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The study suggests that discovery of cause and effect in diabetes can be a powerful approach to helping individuals to improve their self-management strategies, and that self-monitoring data can serve as a driving engine for personal discovery that may lead to sustainable behavior changes.
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Enabling personal discovery is a promising new approach to enhancing chronic disease self-management with informatics interventions.
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