Diabetes - essay question

Question 1

What needs to be considered when choosing treatment

Answer 1

• Patient preferences and requirements
• Patient’s clinical circumstances
  
  • What medications are they already on and will anything prescribed interfere? Polypharmacy risk?
  • Comorbidities
  • Contraindications
  • Cost of treatment
  • Availability and licensing of drug
  • Patient weight
• Drug effectiveness in terms of metabolic response, cardiovascular and renal protection
• Safety of drug and tolerability
• Monitoring requirements and availability