title: Algorithms for personalized therapy of type 2 diabetes: results of a web-based international survey.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  In recent years increasing interest in the issue of treatment personalization for type 2 diabetes (T2DM) has emerged. This international web-based survey aimed to evaluate opinions of physicians about tailored therapeutic algorithms developed by the Italian Association of Diabetologists (AMD) and available online, and to get suggestions for future developments. Another aim of this initiative was to assess whether the online advertising and the survey would have increased the global visibility of the AMD algorithms.
  
  
  METHODS
  The web-based survey, which comprised five questions, has been available from the homepage of the web-version of the journal Diabetes Care throughout the month of December 2013, and on the AMD website between December 2013 and September 2014. Participation was totally free and responders were anonymous.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Overall, 452 physicians (M=58.4%) participated in the survey. Diabetologists accounted for 76.8% of responders. The results of the survey show wide agreement (>90%) by participants on the utility of the algorithms proposed, even if they do not cover all possible needs of patients with T2DM for a personalized therapeutic approach. In the online survey period and in the months after its conclusion, a relevant and durable increase in the number of unique users who visited the websites was registered, compared to the period preceding the survey.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Patients with T2DM are heterogeneous, and there is interest toward accessible and easy to use personalized therapeutic algorithms. Responders opinions probably reflect the peculiar organization of diabetes care in each country.
authors: Department of Oncological Endocrinology , AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza-Molinette , Turin , Italy.
authors: Marco
authors: M
authors: Gallo
authors: Department of Diabetes Agency , Careggi Teaching Hospital , Florence , Italy.
authors: Edoardo
authors: E
authors: Mannucci
authors: Unit of Internal Medicine , IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza , San Giovanni Rotondo , Italy.
authors: Salvatore
authors: S
authors: De Cosmo
authors: Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine , Second University of Naples , Naples , Italy.
authors: Sandro
authors: S
authors: Gentile
authors: Diabetes Center, A.S.S. 1 Triestina , Trieste , Italy.
authors: Riccardo
authors: R
authors: Candido
authors: Ligurian Health Agency , Genoa , Italy.
authors: Alberto
authors: A
authors: De Micheli
authors: Department of Internal Medicine , University of Messina , Messina , Italy.
authors: Antonino
authors: A
authors: Di Benedetto
authors: Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine , Second University of Naples , Naples , Italy.
authors: Katherine
authors: K
authors: Esposito
authors: Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases , Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Gruppo Multimedica , Sesto San Giovanni , Italy.
authors: Stefano
authors: S
authors: Genovese
authors: Italian College of General Practitioners (Società Italiana di Medicina Generale) , Florence , Italy.
authors: Gerardo
authors: G
authors: Medea
authors: Department of Endocrinology , Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) , Barcelona , Spain ; Centro de Investigacion Biomèdica en Red de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabolicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM) , Barcelona , Spain.
authors: Antonio
authors: A
authors: Ceriello
keywords: Algorithms; Survey Analysis; Therapies; Type 2 Diabetes