Can Tailored Patient Letters Improve The Quality Of Diabetic Patient Care?

Diabetes Mellitus Clinical Trial

Official title: Can Tailored Patient Letters Improve The Quality Of Diabetic Patient Care?"

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if tailored letters sent to diabetic patients will improve care of diabetes.

Clinical Trial Description

Diabetes care in the US is less than optimal. Some authors have found that targeted patient letters are also an effective tool to improve outcomes when they are part of a comprehensive disease management plan. Local patient satisfaction surveys had revealed that many patients had sub‐optimal understanding of diabetes measures and of the importance of controlling these measures to reduce diabetic complications. We wondered if tailored patient letters and enclosed lab orders when due might increase patient awareness of diabetes measures and increase patient engagement.We hypothesized that the addition of targeted patient letters with enclosed lab orders to an ongoing performance improvement program would further improve diabetes care.

We conducted a randomized controlled study of tailored patient letters and diabetes lab orders at our two resident‐based clinics. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Health Services Research

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Diabetes Mellitus

• NCT number: NCT00984841
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Scranton-Temple Residency Program
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 2009
• Completion date: July 2009