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).
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.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
10
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
resource utilization
Time frame: baseline compared to 2 years intervention
compliance with process measures
Time frame: 3 years
metabolic outcome
Time frame: 3 years
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