A Randomized Trial of Electronic Integration of Care for Better Diabetes Outcomes; The COMPETE II Study

McMaster University511 enrolled

Overview

This study will evaluate whether the use of an electronic diabetes tracker by both patients and family physicians in Ontario improves diabetes outcomes, satisfaction with care and with technology and health data privacy issues. As part of the study, the investigators will be able to test whether practices that use computers perform any better than practices using paper. The investigators also will be developing the first Canadian computerized chart summary for each patient that can be communicated securely in emergencies (the Emergency Health Record) and read by all current electronic systems.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

511

Conditions

Diabetes

Interventions

Electronic disease management decision support

A Diabetes Tracker embedded in a Core Data Set (DT/CDS) supported by an automated telephone reminder system (ATRS)

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 90 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Adult, cognitively intact, consenting people with diabetes within enrolled practices Exclusion Criteria: * Non-english speaking * Cognitively impaired

Locations (1)

St Joseph's Healthcare & Mcmaster University

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Comparison of change in diabetes quality of care between intervention and usual care group.

Time frame: 6 months follow-up

Secondary Outcomes

Change in diabetes risk factor variables, satisfaction with care and technology, quality of life and health care utilization, health data privacy issues.

Time frame: 6 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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