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Determinants Of Behavioral Intent To Adopt The Closed-Loop Artificial Pancreas Among Diabetes Healthcare Providers, Carolyn M. Serrano

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

Background and Purpose of the Study: Diabetes mellitus for both children and adults are broadly defined as a group of complex diseases characterized by high blood glucose, resulting from a defect in either the production of or action of insulin, or both (National Institutes of Health, 2014). There are 29.1 million people in the US that are estimated to have diagnosed or undiagnosed diabetes (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2014). Type 1 diabetes accounts for approximately 5-10% of all diabetes cases however, it has serious short term and long-term implications (Daneman, 2006).

Technology for diabetes management is rapidly …