Tools
The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) offers tools and materials to assist with implementing its recommendations on optimal use of insulin analogues. Designed to support decision-making, the tools provide summaries of key information. To make these tools relevant to different audiences, CADTH can tailor specific tools to individual needs and settings. Contact us if you would like our assistance in tailoring any of these tools to meet your unique needs as a health care provider, policy-maker, or consumer.
To help decision-makers evaluate optimal use initiatives, CADTH has also developed a series of generic tools that can be applied across health topics. These generic tools including an audit and feedback guide, an evaluation framework, and academic detailing templates.
Insulin Analogue Therapy Tools
- Using Evidence in the Real World — a didactic presentation that provides a basic overview of evidence-based decision-making, using CADTH's work on self-monitoring of blood glucose and insulin analogues as examples.
- Guide to Starting and Adjusting Insulin for Type 2 Diabetes — a fold-out information card providing health care professionals with guidance on how and when to start insulin.
- Didactic Presentation for Pharmacists — designed for pharmacist education meetings, these slides may be used by continuing medical education providers, in part or in whole, for education on the optimal prescribing and use of insulin analogues.
- Didactic Presentation for Physicians — continuing medical education providers may use these presentation slides, in part or in whole, for education on the optimal prescribing and use of insulin analogues.
- Presentation for Pharmacists, together with Interactive Case Studies — these products are designed for use, in part or in whole, by continuing medical education providers in small education sessions regarding the optimal prescribing and use of insulin analogues for pharmacists.
- Presentation for Physicians, with Case Studies and a Participant's Guide — designed for continuing medical education providers for small education sessions on the optimal prescribing and use of insulin analogues; includes case studies.
- Project Highlights Brochure — highlights of the clinical and economic evidence from the CADTH insulin analogue project.
- Optimal Therapy Newsletter — summary of key clinical messages on optimal prescribing and use of insulin analogues for the treatment of diabetes to support decision-making by health care professionals.
- Quick Reference Prescribing Aid — contains comparative cost information and key messages about insulin analogues.
- COMPUS/RxFiles Pearls Document — detailed evidence and messaging “PEARLS,” which are key pieces of information around a topic area.
- Upskilling document — provides relevant reference material to qualified interventionists (i.e., continuing medical education providers, academic detailers).
- Interventions for Optimizing Therapy in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: A Literature Review — a formal report summarizing study results on intervention strategies in diabetes therapy.
Published Articles
- Efficacy and safety of insulin analogues for the management of diabetes mellitus: a meta-analysis (Canadian Medical Association Journal)
- Cost-effectiveness of insulin analogues for diabetes mellitus (Canadian Medical Association Journal)
- Insulin analogues: too much noise about small benefits (Commentary; Canadian Medical Association Journal)