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Jodi Holtrop, PhD, MCHES
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Most people with diabetes receive their diabetes care in a primary care/family medicine clinical setting (50% of adults with type 1 and 90% of all people with type 2).
Dr. Oser says iLet provides the opportunity for more people with diabetes to successfully manage their conditions in consultation with their primary care provider and avoid the need to see a specialist like an endocrinologist.
With that said, Oser and her colleague and husband, Dr. Sean Oser, are undertaking a study of iLet in primary care settings.
It is called, PREPARE 4 AID: Primary Care Pragmatic Real World Experience for Automated Insulin Delivery.
“This is a three-year, $4.5 million study that will consist of a randomized controlled trial of 140 people with insulin-treated diabetes (type 1 or type 2 diabetes) randomized to the iLet AID system or their standard care for 3 months, followed by an observational extension of 3 months more in which all participants will use the iLet AID system,” says Oser.
The trial itself is intended to replicate as closely as possible what the primary care experience and effort would be in ordering this system and starting it with patients for clinical use.
The plan is to recruit and onboard 100-110 participants through the CU site at the Primary Care Diabetes Lab, while partners at Massachusetts General Hospital plan to recruit an additional 30-40 participants – with the first patients enrolled in late Winter 2023 or early Spring 2024.
Dr. Tamara Oser Dr. Sean Oser
Learn more about the University of Colorado Primary Care Diabetes Lab.
Jodi Holtrop, PhD, MCHES
Vice Chair for Research
jodi.holtrop@cuanschutz.edu
Carlee Kreisel, MPH
Research Services Specialist
carlee.kreisel@cuanschutz.edu
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