Interprofessional Training for Improving Diabetes Care
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 117
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Provider Abilities Scale - Subscale From the Midwest (MW) Clinicians' Network
研究概览
简要总结
The investigators' study focuses on improving the care of diabetes, a complex chronic illness, by providing important insights into interprofessional training and its potential role in fostering the necessary interdisciplinary management needed for chronic conditions and in addressing the gap between best practice and actual care provided.
详细描述
The complexity of diabetes management challenges the acute care-oriented healthcare system. Some experts suggest part of the problem is that the healthcare system fosters a separate silos decision making model. While there is increasing recognition that quality diabetes care is best provided in an interdisciplinary manner, interprofessional training models are limited, as is understanding of the links between interprofessional training, actual practice, and patient outcomes. Advancing our understanding of interprofessional training models is critical because most of the complications associated with diabetes (e.g., amputations, renal failure, strokes) can be prevented or delayed with proper management. The investigators' objective is to better understand the processes and mechanisms by which interprofessional training impacts on chronic care management (practice patterns) and the ways it translates into improved patient outcomes.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 25 Years 至 85 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •All clinicians in all of Ohio's CBOCs (except for the Georgetown CBOC) will be eligible for the study (all PCPs have patients with DM in their panel of patients).
- •All diabetic patients who are seen in Ohio's CBOCs (except for the Georgetown CBOC) will be eligible for the study.
排除标准
- •Any clinician who does not have diabetic patients on their panel, who aren't apart of Ohio's CBOC's, or see patients at the Georgetown CBOC will not be eligible to participate.
- •Patients who don't have a diagnosis of diabetes, who aren't seen at one of Ohio's CBOC's, or is seen for their medical care at the Georgetown CBOC will not be eligible to participate.
结局指标
主要结局
Provider Abilities Scale - Subscale From the Midwest (MW) Clinicians' Network
时间窗: 22 months (post-intervention)
Providers asked to indicate their level of confidence on an 11-point scale, with 0 indicating 'not at all confident' and 10 indicating 'extremely confident' for the following activities: 1. Instruct patients on home glucose monitoring 2. Teach foot care 3. Teach insulin administration 4. Instruct patients about diet 5. Help patients make changes in their diets that you have recommended 6. Instruct patients about regular exercise 7. Help patients make changes in their exercise habits that you have recommended 8. Identify candidates for long-acting insulin 9. Interpret glucose patterns 10. Adjust insulin in insulin-treated patients with poor glycemic control 11. Do you feel comfortable knowing whether to titrate basal insulin versus bolus insulin 12. Manage patients with poor glycemic control 13. Initiate insulin therapy (NPH or insulin glargine and aspart) 14. Apply principles of diabetes care in a team setting Averages of provider efficacy were calculated across all activities.
次要结局
- Attitudes Toward Healthcare Teams Scale and Subscales(22 months (post-intervention))