Table 2.

Language used by primary care providers to assess hypoglycaemia history, and by patients to report hypoglycemic events.

Language category	PCP mentions (N = 65)	Patient mentions (N = 31)	Representative quotes
Low	37 (56.9)	8 (25.8)	PCP: Have you been having low blood sugar? PCP: Any problems with them going too low? Patient: The thing that worries me most is when I hit the low ones. Patient: I've been noticing an increase of like low blood sugar.
Symptoms	5 (7.7)	7 (22.6)	PCP: Do you feel any episodes where you get shaky? Patient: I was starting to feel dizzy. I know my signs. Patient: I'm sitting on my porch the other day and I felt bad and just dizzy like I had drank something.
Low and symptoms	7 (10.8)	1 (3.2)	PCP: Any issues with low sugars? Where you've been sweaty, shaky, had to eat something? Patient: I was at work, casing mail, and I got dizzy. I started sweating. My sugar dropped low.
Specific values	1 (1.5)	8 (25.8)	PCP: Do you ever get into the 60s or the 70s? Patient: I didn't take no insulin, because it was 68. Patient: I had another 50 the other day, and I got a 45 yesterday.
Low and specific values	8 (12.3)	0	PCP: Ever getting the real low ones, down to like 50, 60, like that? PCP: Have you had anything too low? Like you're getting into the 60's 70's range?
Hypoglycaemia or hypo	2 (3.1)	2 (6.5)	PCP: Have you had any episodes of hypoglycaemia? Patient: One day this week, I had a hypo reaction.
Dropping	4 (6.2)	5 (16.1)	PCP: Have you had any episodes where your sugar drops? PCP: Do you drop too much? Patient: They were dropping too much, yeah. Patient: Within the last month, I think it has dropped about maybe five times.
Bottoming out	1 (1.5)	0	PCP: Are you bottoming out at all?

Data are total number of mentions (%), which may occur more than once per visit.