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Effectiveness of Phone Calls Intervention on Diabetic Patients After Ambulatory Discharge of a Tertiary Care Center

NCT02768480 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 147

Last updated 2019-02-26

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The study is a randomized clinical trial, controlled, open label that aimed to compare two groups after discharge of a tertiary care: type 2 diabetes patients followed exclusively by primary care (control group) and patients followed by primary care and supported by phone calls (intervention group).

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Primary Care

Patients will be followed by primary care team according to the usual health system routine.

OTHER

Phone Calls Support and Primary Care

Patients in intervention group will receive periodic phone calls (every three months) and will have a toll-free number to resolve questions about the disease management. The phone-calls will be performed by trained nurses and will follow a structured format. Nurses will address some topics: patient's treatment adherence, technique of insulin administration, disease understanding, hypoglycaemia management, healthy diet, smoke cessation and foot care.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sandra P Silveiro, MD · Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-06-30
Primary Completion
2018-12-31
Completion
2018-12-31

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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Diseases

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