Diabetes Care
Study results from P.J. Oconnor and colleagues in the area of diabetes care published
Published in MD Week, September 4th, 2009
In this recently published study, investigators in the United States conducted a study "To assess whether providing customized clinical information to patients and physicians improves safety or quality of diabetes care. Study subjects included 123 primary care physicians and 3,703 eligible adult diabetic patients with elevated A1C or LDL cholesterol, who were randomly assigned to receive customized feedback of clinical information as follows: 1) patient only, 2) physician only, 3) both the patient and physician, or 4) neither patient nor physician."
"In the intervention groups, Patients received customized mailed information or physicians received printed, prioritized...
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Source: MD Week (2009-09-04)
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