Certain exemplary embodiments provide devices, methods, systems, and/or computer program products related to the maintenance of optimal control of diabetes, directed to determining patterns of inadequate testing during periods that tend to precede periods of poor glycemic control, or that can be presented in the context of daily periods of poor glycemic control. A user can be notified of the pattern of insufficient testing in the time period immediate precedent to or during the period of insufficient testing, so that a detrimental pattern can be avoided and/or mitigated by the user through increased self-testing.
