Improving diabetes care through professional behaviour change

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Topic: Diabetes Research Network; Subtopic: Type 2; Disease: Hypertension, Diabetic Control, Diabetic foot, Education, Nutrition, Prevention/screening, Service delivery; Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine; Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus

• Registration Number: ISRCTN66498413
• Lead Sponsor: HS North of Tyne (UK)

Brief Summary

2014 protocol in: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24886606 2018 results in: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29720209

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2013-04-04
• Study Completion: 2015-03-31
• Last Update Posted: 5 June 2018

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 2002

Inclusion Criteria

1. Male & Female ; Lower Age Limit 18 years
2. Primary health care professionals delivering care to people with type 2 diabetes within their practice.
3. People with type 2 diabetes registered with participating practices.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Health care professionals providing care to patients with type 2 diabetes from more than one GP practice, e.g. district nurses and podiatrists
2. GP registrars
3. Patients for whom the questionnaire would not be appropriate (decided by practice staff)
4. Patients aged under 18 years

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Clinician advising, prescribing and examining behaviours collected via patient questionnaires and electronic queries; Timepoint(s): 12 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
We will collect QOF data for diabetes mellitus and practice organisation for each participating practice; we will also conduct a process evaluation (using quantitative and qualitative methods), a cost analysis and fidelity of delivery assessment.