En el mismo artículo del J Fam Pract se señala:

Despite the lack of definitive evidence, the Department of Health and Human Services calls on us to increase the proportion of patients with diabetes who monitor their blood sugar at least once daily to 60% as part of its Healthy People 2010 initiative.⁸ The American Diabetes Association states that self-monitoring of blood glucose may help patients taking oral antidiabetic agents achieve glycemic goals.⁹ And the International Diabetes Federation recommends that self-monitoring of blood glucose be offered to all people with type 2 diabetes taking insulin or oral agents—and be part of the patient education that is given to all those who are newly diagnosed.¹⁰

8. US Department of Health and Human Services Healthy People 2010. Increase the proportion of adults with diabetes who perform self-blood-glucose-monitoring at least once daily. Available at: http://www.healthypeople.gov/document/html/objectives/05-17.htm. 

9. American Diabetes Association Executive summary: standards of medical care in diabetes—2008. Diabetes Care. 2008;31(suppl 1):S5–S11. Available at: http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/full/31/Supplement_1/S5.

10. International Diabetes Federation Clinical Guidelines Taskforce Global guidelines for type 2 diabetes: recommendations for standard, comprehensive and minimal care. Diabetes Med. 2006;23:579–593.