Clinical trial NCT01074762: Randomised Controlled Trial of Structured Personal Care of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Official title: The Diabetes Care in General Practice Study: Randomised Controlled Trial of Structured Personal Care of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Diabetes Mellitus
Quality of Health Care
Health Services Research
Keywords: Diabetes mellitus
Quality of health care
Health services research
Lead sponsor: Research Unit Of General Practice, Copenhagen
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2010-02-24
Enrollment: 1470
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 40
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: The aims of a concluding 14-year follow-up study are:

* To investigate what long-term effect the project model for structured, personalized diabetes care has on 1) the patients' mortality and development of diabetic complications, 2) the patients' use of services from the primary and secondary sector, 3) the patients' self-rated health and motivation, and 4) the doctor-patient relationship.

Detailed description: Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is an increasingly common illness that is linked to considerable excessive mortality. There are many indications that treatment of raised blood pressure and blood glucose as well as dyslipidaemia can postpone the development of diabetic complications. Treatment of T2DM is primarily done in general practice, where the results are not satisfactory. The purpose of the project is to create a basis so the existing research-based knowledge can be used to improve the quality of diabetes care in general practice.

The answer will be based on the information from 1,428 newly diagnosed diabetic patients aged 40 or over who were followed since 1989 in a randomised trial among more than 600 general practitioners. The intervention, which ended at the beginning of 1996, provided optimum conditions for follow-up, doctor-patient communication and treatment, among other ways by training the doctors, producing clinical guidelines and setting individual treatment goals. In the project, the general practitioner is seen as the coordinator of the whole health system's prophylactic efforts in relation to the individual diabetic patient.

The aims of a concluding 14-year follow-up are:

* To investigate what long-term effect the project model for structured, personalized diabetes care has on 1) the patients' mortality and development of diabetic complications, 2) the patients' use of services from the primary and secondary sector, 3) the patients' self-rated health and motivation, and 4) the doctor-patient relationship.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* all patients aged 40 or older with newly diagnosed diabetes between 1 March 1989 and 28 February 1991 based on hyperglycaemic symptoms or raised blood glucose values measured in general practice

Exclusion Criteria:

* threatening somatic disease, severe mental illness, or unwillingness to participate. For our analysis, we also excluded non-white patients and patients whose diagnosis was not established by a blood glucose measurement at a major laboratory within 500 days after diagnosis.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Mortality
timeFrame: From diabetes diagnosis until median14 year after study start
measure: Diabetic retinopathy
timeFrame: at 6 year and 14 year after study start
measure: Urinary albumin concentration
timeFrame: at 6 year and 14 year after study start
measure: Myocardial infarction
timeFrame: From diabetes diagnosis until median14 year after study start
measure: Stroke
timeFrame: From diabetes diagnosis until median14 year after study start
Secondary outcomes:
measure: New peripheral neuropathy
timeFrame: at 6 year and 14 year after study start
measure: New angina pectoris
timeFrame: at 6 year and 14 year after study start
measure: New intermittent claudication
timeFrame: at 6 year and 14 year after study start
measure: Amputation
timeFrame: From diabetes diagnosis until median14 year after study start
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Copenhagen
country: Denmark
facility: The Research Unit for General Practice in Copenhagen, Centre for Health and Community, Øster Farimagsgade 5
Study officials:
References:
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citation: Lundstrom H, Siersma V, Nielsen AB, Brodersen J, Reventlow S, Andersen PK, de Fine Olivarius N. The effectiveness of structured personal care of type 2 diabetes on recurrent outcomes: a 19 year follow-up of the study Diabetes Care in General Practice (DCGP). Diabetologia. 2014 Jun;57(6):1119-23. doi: 10.1007/s00125-014-3204-1. Epub 2014 Mar 6.
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