Resources designed to be simple
BASAGLAR comes with the BASAGLAR Experience: resources designed to help patients accept, start, and stay on insulin.
In patients with type 1 diabetes, BASAGLAR must be used concomitantly with short-acting insulin.1
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WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS
All insulin products, including BASAGLAR, cause a shift in potassium from the extracellular to intracellular space, possibly leading to hypokalemia. Untreated hypokalemia may cause respiratory paralysis, ventricular arrhythmia, and death. Monitor potassium levels in patients at risk for hypokalemia if indicated.
ACCEPT: Support for your hesitant patients
Are concerns and misconceptions about insulin preventing your patients from starting? When A1C is rising and a patient is still hesitant about starting basal insulin, the BASAGLAR Experience resources may help.
Insulin Discussion Tool
- Designed to help guide patients through the importance of different diabetes treatment options
- Available from your BASAGLAR representative
Injection Demonstration Kit and Instructions for Use
- Helps you demonstrate KwikPen® injection in your office
- Available from your BASAGLAR representative
Living With Long-Acting Insulin video
- Helps dispel patient myths about insulin
- Available on the Beginning BASAGLAR app, online, and as an in-office resource
Watch the Living With Long-Acting Insulin video, which follows Barry through a day in the life of a long- acting insulin beginner. It might help clear up some questions your patients have about what it’s like to start insulin.
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WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS
Severe, life-threatening, generalized allergy, including anaphylaxis, can occur with insulin products, including BASAGLAR. If hypersensitivity reactions occur, discontinue BASAGLAR; treat per standard of care and monitor until symptoms and signs resolve. BASAGLAR is contraindicated in patients who have had hypersensitivity reactions to insulin glargine or one of the excipients.
START: Resources are designed to help your patients first starting basal insulin
We have resources that are designed to help with your patient's transition to insulin.
BASAGLAR Sample Kit with needles
Lilly is committed to providing the BASAGLAR sample kit to physicians as a resource for patients starting basal insulin. The BASAGLAR sample kit includes a prefilled KwikPen and needles, plus information to access other resources:
- Information about what to expect
- Videos to watch for help with injections
- Savings information
- Phone number to call with questions and to get connected to the BASAGLAR GoodStart® Program
Train patients on proper use and injection technique before initiating BASAGLAR.
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WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS
BASAGLAR prefilled pens must never be shared between patients, even if the needle is changed. Sharing poses a risk of transmission of blood borne pathogens.
BASAGLAR Patient Brochure
- Important information to help your patients begin BASAGLAR
- Includes a BASAGLAR Savings Card
- Ask your BASAGLAR representative
Injection Instruction Video
- A step-by-step demonstration on how to inject
- Available on the Beginning BASAGLAR app, online, and as an in-office resource
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WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS
All insulin products, including BASAGLAR, cause a shift in potassium from the extracellular to intracellular space, possibly leading to hypokalemia. Untreated hypokalemia may cause respiratory paralysis, ventricular arrhythmia, and death. Monitor potassium levels in patients at risk for hypokalemia if indicated.
STAY: Help reinforce important information at home
The BASAGLAR GoodStart Program
Patients enrolled in the BASAGLAR GoodStart Program receive communications from mentors throughout their participation in the program.
- Provides support, encouragement, and guidance through contact with trained health mentors
- Designed to help patients establish a positive routine with their newly prescribed medication
- Patients receive a series of communications covering practical advice, emotional support, and motivational reminders
- To help your patients enroll, simply have them call 1-855-232-1059
More patients enrolled in the BASAGLAR GoodStart Program refilled their prescriptions compared with patients not enrolled.*
*59% Good Start group (n=4951); 54% control group (n=3266). Data collected over 180 days.14
The control was randomized whereby every fourth eligible patient was placed in a control group and received no GoodStart contact or intervention. Patients were excluded if they were more than 20 days late on their refill or if their scheduled fill date was in the future or within 20 days of the study endpoint.
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WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS
Thiazolidinediones (TZDs), which are peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)-gamma agonists, can cause dose-related fluid retention, particularly when used in combination with insulin. Fluid retention may lead to or exacerbate heart failure. These patients should be observed for signs and symptoms of heart failure. If heart failure occurs, dosage reduction or discontinuation of TZD must be considered.
Beginning BASAGLAR mobile app
- The Beginning BASAGLAR app lets patients get help right on their phones. Available at the App Store and the Google Play Store, it includes:
- Injection Instruction Video
- Access to the BASAGLAR Savings Card
- Tips to help establish a daily insulin routine
- Interactive quiz and FAQs
BASAGLAR patient website
Patients can also access many resources on BASAGLAR.com, including the step-by-step Injection Instruction Video and the Instructional Brochure. The website also has:
- Important phone numbers
- Savings information
- Spanish-language site with resources
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ADVERSE REACTIONS
Adverse reactions commonly associated with insulin glargine products (5% or greater incidence) are: hypoglycemia, allergic reactions, injection site reaction, lipodystrophy, pruritus, rash, edema, and weight gain.