On Real-Time Estimates of Blood Glucose Levels
Response to Treviño
- Oliver J. Gibson, MENG1,
- Andrew J. Farmer, FRCGP2,
- Patrick E. McSharry, DPHIL1 and
- Lionel Tarassenko, DPHIL1
- 1Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
- 2Division of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
- Address correspondence to Oliver J. Gibson, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PJ, U.K. E-mail: oliver{at}robots.ox.ac.uk
Treviño (1) has misunderstood our description of the feedback about blood glucose levels offered to patients in our trial of a real-time telemedicine system (2). He has also attributed a quotation from an article by Bode et al. (3) to our report (2). Treviño calls for the use of better statistical methods to deal with temporal correlations between the repeated glucose values used in real-time monitoring. While we have sympathy with this message, …
