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Evaluation of a Toolkit to Improve Cardiovascular Disease Screening and Treatment for People With Type 2 Diabetes

NCT01026688 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1592

Last updated 2014-11-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Diabetes is a common and serious chronic disease. However, there is a large gap between the level of care that people should receive (based on research and guidelines) and the level of care they actually receive. With the release of their 2008 Clinical Practice Guidelines, the Canadian Diabetes Association has a strategy to improve heart disease screening and treatment for people with diabetes. This study will evaluate whether the strategy works. The focus of the strategy was to give all family physicians in Canada a Toolkit in June 2009 to help them delivery better care for their diabetic patients. In Ontario, only half of doctors received this Toolkit. We will compare the quality of care received by diabetic patients whose doctors received this Toolkit versus those who doctors did not.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Toolkit

Cardiovascular Disease Toolkit mailed by the Canadian Diabetes Association to family physicians, accompanying the Spring/Summer 2009 edition of the quarterly newsletter, Canadian Diabetes. (Mailed in June 2009.) The Toolkit includes a summary of selected sections of the practice guidelines targeted towards primary care physicians; a synopsis of the key messages pertaining to cardiovascular disease risk; a laminated card with a simplified algorithm for cardiovascular risk assessment and treatment; and a pad of tear-off sheets for patients with a cardiovascular risk self-assessment tool.

OTHER

Control

The Spring/Summer 2009 issue of the quarterly newsletter, Canadian Diabetes, mailed on its own. The Cardiovascular Toolkit was mailed to Control arm physicians with the May 2010 issue of the newsletter.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences

    collaborator OTHER

  • Unity Health Toronto

    collaborator OTHER

  • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Baiju R Shah, MD PhD · Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-06-30
Primary Completion
2011-05-31
Completion
2011-05-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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