DIABLOG: a simulation program of insulin-glucose dynamics for education of diabetics

Biermann, E.; Mehnert, Hellmut

doi:10.1016/0169-2607(90)90114-o

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“…Furthermore, as Biermann and Mehnert [42] have previously highlighted in this journal, when assessing their DIABLOG simulation program, 'The increasing number of young persons with computer experience suggests an increasing acceptance of computer simulation and learning programs'. Perhaps, therefore, it is no surprise that educational tools, like DIABLOG or AIDA, have been considered as potentially being of most use in establishing a thorough basic understanding of insulin-dosage adjustment in younger diabetic patients [10].…”

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Preliminary experience with the Internet release of AIDA—an interactive educational diabetes simulator

Lehmann

1998

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

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Preliminary experience with the Internet release of AIDA—an interactive educational diabetes simulator

Lehmann

1998

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

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“…8 In the same way that aircraft pilots and air traffic controllers are trained on airplane and air traffic simulators, it should be possible for diabetic patients and health-care students to be trained to make appropriate responses to everyday situations on a diabetes simulator. 9 While other interactive simulators of glucose-insulin interaction have been described in the literature, [10][11][12][13][14] to date none of these have been distributed widely via the Internet, or widely applied.…”

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Further User Comments Regarding Usage of an Interactive Educational Diabetes Simulator (AIDA)

Lehmann

2002

Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics

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This "Diabetes Information Technology & WebWatch" column continues the diabetes simulation theme from previous issues and overviews various user experience with the AIDA v4 interactive educational freeware diabetes simulator. AIDA is a diabetes computer program that permits the interactive simulation of plasma insulin and blood glucose (BG) profiles for educational, demonstration, and self-learning purposes. It has been made freely available, without charge, via the Web as a noncommercial contribution to continuing diabetes education. Since its Internet launch in 1996, over 145,000 visits have been logged at the AIDA Website-www.2aida.org-and over 29,000 copies of the program have been downloaded, free of charge. While these statistics may appear impressive, they do not tell the personal story of how people have been making use of the software, and what they actually think about the program. In this respect, this column documents some of the independent user comments about AIDA sent in spontaneously via electronic mail (email) by patients with diabetes and their relatives, as well as by health-care professionals. Comments posted to diabetes newsgroups and diabetes email lists, as well as a selection of those which have been found at other, linked, diabetes Websites are also highlighted. 121

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“…While other interactive simulators of glucose-insulin interaction in diabetes have been described in the literature, 7,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19] to date these do not seem to have been distributed widely via the Internet, or been made particularly widely available.…”

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Who Is Downloading the Freeware AIDA v4.3 Interactive Educational Diabetes Simulator? An Audit of 2,437 Downloads

Lehmann

2002

Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics

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The purpose of this paper is to report an audit of 2,437 downloads of the AIDA interactive educational diabetes simulator. AIDA is a diabetes computer program that permits the interactive simulation of plasma insulin and blood glucose profiles for educational, demonstration, and self-learning purposes. It has been made freely available, without charge, on the Internet as a noncommercial contribution to continuing diabetes education. Since its launch in 1996 over 200,000 visits have been logged at the AIDA Website-www.2aida.org-and over 37,000 copies of the AIDA program have been downloaded free-of-charge. This report documents an audit of downloaders of the software, with the intended goals of the study being to demonstrate the use of the Internet for auditing and surveying diabetes software users and to confirm the proportion of patients with diabetes and their relatives who are actually making use of the AIDA v4.3 program. The Internet-based survey methodology was confirmed to be robust and reliable. Over a 7 1 / 2 -month period (from mid-July 2000 to early March 2001) 2,437 responses were received. During the corresponding period 4,100 actual downloads of the software were independently logged via the same route at the AIDA Website-giving a response rate to this audit of 59.4%. Responses were received from participants in 61 countries-although over half of these (n 5 1,533; 62.9%) originated from the United States and United Kingdom. Of these responses 1,361 (55.8%) were received from patients with diabetes and 303 (12.4%) from relatives of patients, with fewer responses from doctors, diabetes educators, students, nurses, pharmacists, and other end users. This study has confirmed the feasibility of using the Internet to survey, at no real cost, a large number of medical software downloaders/users. In addition, it has yielded up-to-date and interesting data about who are the main downloaders of the AIDA program. 467

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DIABLOG: a simulation program of insulin-glucose dynamics for education of diabetics

Cited by 47 publications

References 15 publications

Preliminary experience with the Internet release of AIDA—an interactive educational diabetes simulator

Preliminary experience with the Internet release of AIDA—an interactive educational diabetes simulator

Further User Comments Regarding Usage of an Interactive Educational Diabetes Simulator (AIDA)

Who Is Downloading the Freeware AIDA v4.3 Interactive Educational Diabetes Simulator? An Audit of 2,437 Downloads

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