Foy, R, Hawthorne, G, Gibb, I et al. (6 more authors) (2007) A cluster randomised controlled trial of educational prompts in diabetes care: study protocol. Implementation Science, 2. 22. 22 - ?. ISSN 1748-5908
Abstract
Background: laboratory services have a central role in supporting screening, diagnosis, and management of patients. The increase in chronic disease management in primary care for conditions such as diabetes mellitus requires regular monitoring of patients' biochemical parameters. This process offers a route for improving the quality of care that patients receive by using test results as a vehicle for delivering educational messages as well as the test result itself. Aim: to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a quality improvement initiative to improve the care of patients with diabetes using test report reminders. Design: a programme of four cluster randomised controlled trials within one population of general practices. Participants: general practices in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. Intervention: brief educational messages added to paper and electronic general practice laboratory test reports introduced over two phases. Phase One messages, attached to Haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) reports, targeted glycaemic and cholesterol control. Phase Two messages, attached to albumin:creatinine ratio (ACR) reports, targeted blood pressure (BP) control and foot inspection. Outcomes: general practice mean levels of HbA1c and cholesterol (Phase One) and diastolic and systolic BP and proportions of patients having undergone foot inspections (Phase Two); number of tests requested.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2007 Foy et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Medicine (Leeds) > Leeds Institute of Health Sciences (Leeds) > Academic Unit of Primary Care (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 15 Jul 2016 11:23 |
Last Modified: | 12 Feb 2019 14:17 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-2-22 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | BioMed Central |
Identification Number: | 10.1186/1748-5908-2-22 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:89417 |