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Mobile Diabetes Education Teams in Primary Care

NCT01553266 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 900

Last updated 2017-04-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the implementation of the Mobile Diabetes Education Team (MDET) intervention in the Greater Toronto Area, as well as the intervention's effectiveness in improving patient clinical and care process outcomes.

The study's hypotheses are that the MDET intervention results in the following outcomes:

* Improvement in patient clinical outcomes;
* An increase in the proportion of primary care physicians (PCPs) performing patient care processes according to clinical practice guidelines;
* An increase in the proportion of referrals to, and patients' utilization of, diabetes education programs (DEPs).

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mobile Diabetes Education Teams intervention

A MDET (one Registered Nurse and Registered Dietician) supports primary care physicians by providing diabetes management education to the PCPs' patients onsite, one to four times a month based on patient volume.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Trillium Health Centre

    collaborator OTHER

  • Toronto Metropolitan University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Enza Gucciardi, PhD · Toronto Metropolitan University

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-03-01
Primary Completion
2014-03-12
Completion
2017-04-12

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