Timing of insulin glargine

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Susan Lee
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Timing of insulin glargine

What dose-timing scheme do you use for insulin glargine?

Do you use standard times such as QAM, QHS, Q12H (09,21)?
In that case, if a dose is give off standard times, subsequent doses would need to get staggerred onto stnadard times, which may not always happen corectly.

Or, Do you use a rolling schedule, basing the next dose on the last previous dose?
In that case, there's no standard time, and doses will tend to get given at various hours of the day.

Thanks for any input.
Susan

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