作者
Mohammed K Ali, Kavita Singh, Dimple Kondal, Raji Devarajan, Shivani A Patel, Roopa Shivashankar, Vamadevan S Ajay, AG Unnikrishnan, V Usha Menon, Premlata K Varthakavi, Vijay Viswanathan, Mala Dharmalingam, Ganapati Bantwal, Rakesh Kumar Sahay, Muhammad Qamar Masood, Rajesh Khadgawat, Ankush Desai, Bipin Sethi, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, KM Venkat Narayan, Nikhil Tandon, CARRS Trial Group*
发表日期
2016/9/20
期刊
Annals of internal medicine
卷号
165
期号
6
页码范围
399-408
出版商
American College of Physicians
简介
This article has been corrected. The original version (PDF) is appended to this article as a Supplement.
Background
Achievement of diabetes care goals is suboptimal globally. Diabetes-focused quality improvement (QI) is effective but remains untested in South Asia.
Objective
To compare the effect of a multicomponent QI strategy versus usual care on cardiometabolic profiles in patients with poorly controlled diabetes.
Design
Parallel, open-label, pragmatic randomized, controlled trial. (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01212328)
Setting
Diabetes clinics in India and Pakistan.
Patients
1146 patients (575 in the intervention group and 571 in the usual care group) with type 2 diabetes and poor cardiometabolic profiles (glycated hemoglobin [HbA1c] level ≥8 …
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