Improving Diabetes Care Collaboratively in the Community

The University of Chicago

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diabetes

Treatments: Behavioral: health disparities collaborative; Other: No additional educational sessions

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT00359996

9886 (AHRQ R01 HS10479)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a quality improvement intervention including rapid quality improvement, a chronic care model, and best practices improves diabetes care in community health centers and whether more intensive interventions enhance care further.

Full description

In 1998 the Health Resources and Services Administration's Bureau of Primary Health Care began the Health Disparities Collaborative (HDC) to improve chronic disease management in community health centers (HC) nationwide. The HDC incorporates rapid quality improvement (QI), a chronic care model, and best practices. This study determines if the HDC improves diabetes care and whether more intensive interventions with additional learning sessions for health centers, provider training in behavioral change, and patient empowerment materials enhance care further.

Enrollment: 6,993 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients with diabetes age 18-75 years

Exclusion criteria

Pregnant women

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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6,993 participants in 2 patient groups

Health disparities collaborative

Active Comparator group

Description:

The HDC incorporates rapid quality improvement (QI), a chronic care model, and best practices. This study determines if the HDC improves diabetes care and whether more intensive interventions with additional learning sessions for health centers, provider training in behavioral change, and patient empowerment materials enhance care further.

Treatment:

Behavioral: health disparities collaborative

Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

No additional educational sessions added to usual care of patients.

Treatment:

Other: No additional educational sessions