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The Effect of Patients' Participation in Improving Diabetes Care

NCT00533494 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Last updated 2007-11-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Despite the advent of efficacious medicines, there is a gap between ideal and actual care in the achievement of recommended outcomes among diabetic patients. The study enrolled 429 diabetic patients attending four HMO clinics in Israel, two in the northern region and two in the southern region. All clinics were randomly selected from all clinics affiliated with the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Ben Gurion University. The objective of the study was to compare the effects of a multi-component physician-patient intervention to physician feedback alone on a combined outcome of diabetes, blood pressure and serum lipids control. We hypothesized that in medical practices where physicians have received feedback on quality of care indicators, patients who received a letter encouraging them to discuss a list of important diabetes-related issues with their doctors, would experience better outcomes compared to patients who did no received such a letter.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

physician feedback (A)

Feedback information to physicians

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Soroka University Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Shimon Weitzman, MD, MPH · Department of Epidemiology- Faculty of Health Sciences-Ben Gurion University

  • Hava Tabenkin, MD, LLB · Department of Family Medicine, Afula - Clalit Health Services

  • Sheldon Greenfield, MD · Department of Medicine, School of Medicine,UCI

  • Sherrie H Kaplan, PhD · Department of Medicine, School of Medicine,ICI

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
30 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2000-01-31
Completion
2003-09-30

Countries

  • Israel

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