Clancy 2007.
| Study characteristics | ||
| Methods |
Group visits: promoting adherence to diabetes guidelines Patient RCT, conducted in an Adult Primary Care Centre, Medical University of South Carolina, USA Two arms: 1) Control patients (control arm) and 2) Group patients (intervention arm) |
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| Participants | Control arm N: 90 Intervention arm N: 96 Diabetes type: type 2 Mean age: 56.0 ± NR % Male: 28.0 Longest follow‐up: 12 months |
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| Interventions |
Control arm: None Intervention arm: 1) Team changes 2) Patient education |
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| Outcomes | 1) Aspirin, N users (%) Control arm: pre NR (NR), post 43 (48) Intervention arm: pre NR (NR), post 78 (81) 2) Retinopathy screening (eye exam), N screened (%) Control arm: pre NR (NR), post 48 (53) Intervention arm: pre NR (NR), post 72 (75) 3) Foot screening, N screened (%) Control arm: pre NR (NR), post 25 (28) Intervention arm: pre NR (NR), post 62 (65) 4) Renal screening (microalbumin), N screened (%) Control arm: pre NR (NR), post 30 (33) Intervention arm: pre NR (NR), post 40 (42) 5) HbA1c, mean % (SE) Control arm: pre 8.9 (0.2), post 9.0 (0.3) Intervention arm: pre 9.3 (0.2), post 9.1 (0.2) |
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| Funding source | This project was supported by grant number 5 P01 HS10871 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey, and 1R21NS043569 from National Institutes of Health/NINDS | |
| Notes | — | |
| Risk of bias | ||
| Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
| Random sequence generation (selection bias) | Low risk | Information not available. |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Unclear risk | Information not available. |
| Patient's baseline characteristics (selection bias) | Low risk | Information not available. |
| Patient's baseline outcomes (selection bias) | Low risk | Information not available. |
| Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) | Low risk | Information not available. |
| Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) and of outcome assessors (detection bias) | Low risk | Information not available. |
| Selective reporting (reporting bias) | Low risk | Information not available. |
| Risk of contamination (other bias) | Unclear risk | Information not available. |
| Other bias | Low risk | Information not available. |