The Use of a Computer Program to Help Primary Care Providers Treat Patients With Type 2 Diabetes (CADS)
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The primary purpose of this study is to determine whether the use of CADS by primary care providers (PCPs) for their patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) changes the quality of care relative to a "usual care" group in terms of objective outcome measures of glycemic control (e.g., A1c, mean blood glucose, frequency of hypoglycemic episodes) and in terms of subjective ratings by patients.
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The CADS software integrates the patient's home blood glucose data with appropriate laboratory data (e.g. A1c, liver function, kidney function), demographic data (age, gender), current and previous medications, and active/inactive medical diagnoses. The software makes a recommendation about what medication changes are appropriate with potential alternates. Providers with their patients are block randomized into CADS or "Usual Care" for 1 year.
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- Non-specialist physician (general internist or family practitioner), nurse practitioner, physicians assistant
- Absence of orders for deployment or permanent change of station
- Willingness to recruit up to 19 patients prior to randomization
- Willingness to deliver "usual care" as defined in Section 6.3.2 of the protocol.
Exclusion criteria
- Specialist physicians
- Orders for deployment or permanent change of station
- Unwillingness to recruit up to 19 patients prior to randomization
- No prior experience with management of type 2 diabetes in adults
- Unwillingness to deliver "usual care" as defined in Section 6.3.2 of the protocol.
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28 participants in 1 patient group
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