NCT00854594

Interprofessional Training to Improve Diabetes Care: The ReSPECT Trial

Interprofessional Training for Improving Diabetes Care

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 117 (actual)
• Sponsor: US Department of Veterans Affairs · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 25 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed description

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.

Conditions

• Diabetes Mellitus

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Role modeling in Shared medical appointments to Promote Establishing Collaborative Teams (ReSPECT)	The intervention is designed to educate the clinicians at intervention CBOCs by modeling interprofessional team practices during SMAs for diabetes mellitus (DM) patients from each CBOC primary care provider's (PCP) patient panel. We hypothesize that this education at intervention CBOCs will improve interprofessional practices and overall quality care delivered to veterans.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-09-01
• Primary completion: 2013-05-01
• Completion: 2013-09-01
• First posted: 2009-03-03
• Last updated: 2015-10-06
• Results posted: 2015-10-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States