GP intervention cuts risk factors in patients with type 2 diabetes

Educational and assessment support for general practitioners to provide structured personal care can improve the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes. Olivarius and colleagues (p 970) set up their model in a non-selected population and found that after six years patients of doctors who used the strategy had reduced levels of risk factors for complications of diabetes, compared with patients of doctors using routine care.


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Randomised controlled trial of structured personal care of type 2 diabetes mellitus
Niels de Fine Olivarius, Henning Beck-Nielsen, Anne Helms Andreasen, Mogens Hørder, and Poul A Pedersen
BMJ 2001 323: 970. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]




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