The purpose of this study is to see if an online program for patients with diabetes helps patients improve their self-care (how they take their medications, what they eat, how much they exercise, and whether they smoke).
Patient portals are online programs that can provide a number of functions for patients, among them: * Ability to request appointments, referrals, and medication refills; * Ability to send secure electronic messages to medical staff, and to receive replies; * Access to the medical record; * Disease management We are comparing two patient portals with different sets of features to determine if personalized information and guidance can improve self-care and measures of diabetes-related health. Self-care measures will be assessed using standardized questionnaires at baseline, 3, and 6 months. Chart review will be used to assess measures of diabetes-related health.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
331
University of Colorado Hospital
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Composite measure of diabetes self-care activities, developed from the Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Measure
Time frame: Surveys at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months
Qualitative assessment of the program by patients and medical staff
Time frame: Interviews after 9 months of deployment
Biological markers of diabetes care (hemoglobin A1c, blood pressure, LDL cholesterol)
Time frame: Incidentally obtained over 9 months of care
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