Status
Conditions
Treatments
About
The purpose of this study is to test the effectiveness of physician profiling and care coordination by a diabetes resource nurse in improving the quality of diabetes care.
Full description
HealthTexas Provider Network primary care practices with at least 10 Medicare diabetes patients over the age of 65 were randomized to one of 3 intervention arms: physician feedback of process measures using Medicare claims data ("Claims"); feedback of Medicare claims data plus clinical measures from medical record abstraction ("Claims+MR"); or both types of feedback plus a practice-based DRN ("DRN"). For the 12 months prior to the intervention and 12 months post-intervention, performance data on diabetes related processes of care (annual HbA1c testing, annual LDL cholesterol screening, annual hypertension screening, annual eye, foot, and renal assessment) and patient outcomes (HbA1c level, LDL cholesterol level, blood pressure) were collected from medical record abstraction and Medicare claims data. Pre-post change scores will be compared between intervention arms to examine effectiveness of physician profiling and care coordination by a diabetes resource nurse.
Enrollment
Sex
Ages
Volunteers
Inclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria
Primary purpose
Allocation
Interventional model
Masking
1,891 participants in 3 patient groups
Loading...
Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov
Clinical trials
Research sites
Resources
Legal