NCT00838825

Continuous Quality Improvement for Diabetes

Continuous Quality Improvement for Diabetes: Unique Care Delivery Design's Effect on Quality of Care and Utilization of Resources

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (actual)
• Sponsor: Santa Clara Valley Health & Hospital System · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare health care delivery outcomes and costs achieved by two different approaches to health care delivery. The investigators will compare health outcomes for groups of adult patents with diabetes. One group will be managed by our traditional approach to diabetes care. The second group's care delivery is structured according to a design consistent with the Chronic Care Model (CCM).

Detailed description

The study is comparing the effect of an intervention targeting a subset of the diabetic patients within a primary care practice on the resource utilization of resources and disease outcomes on the entire population of patients with diabetes in that practice. The effect will also be compared across the entire panel of patients assigned to the physicians in the 2 arms of the study.

Conditions

• Diabetes

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	introduction of the chronic care model	The care management team is organized according to the chronic care model for health care delivery. They are supported by an information registry for diabetes, receive instruction in self-management, have redesigned their work flow to include delegation of functions to care managers who follow specific guidelines and protocols for managing diabetes

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-04-01
• Primary completion: 2008-03-01
• Completion: 2011-04-01
• First posted: 2009-02-06
• Last updated: 2016-05-10