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Abstract
Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) offers real-time and longitudinal insights into glycemic patterns, time in range, and hypoglycemia. Adopting CGMs into practice can improve clinical outcomes while strengthening patient engagement and enabling data-driven care across routine visits and population health programs. Despite strong evidence of benefit, CGM remains underused in primary care, where most patients with diabetes mellitus are managed. Barriers include limited familiarity with CGM technology, interpretation, workflow, documentation and billing, and patient access and education. The purpose of this clinical review was to help equip primary care clinicians with a concise, family medicine-focused framework for adopting CGM, including technology overview, patient selection and education, practical interpretation of standardized reports, team-based workflow, documentation, and reimbursement.
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As the official journal of the Birmingham, Alabama-based Southern Medical Association (SMA), the Southern Medical Journal (SMJ) has for more than 100 years provided the latest clinical information in areas that affect patients'' daily lives. Now delivered to individuals exclusively online, the SMJ has a multidisciplinary focus that covers a broad range of topics relevant to physicians and other healthcare specialists in all relevant aspects of the profession, including medicine and medical specialties, surgery and surgery specialties; child and maternal health; mental health; emergency and disaster medicine; public health and environmental medicine; bioethics and medical education; and quality health care, patient safety, and best practices. Each month, articles span the spectrum of medical topics, providing timely, up-to-the-minute information for both primary care physicians and specialists. Contributors include leaders in the healthcare field from across the country and around the world. The SMJ enables physicians to provide the best possible care to patients in this age of rapidly changing modern medicine.
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