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. 2024 Aug 2;24:879. doi: 10.1186/s12903-024-04672-1

Table 1.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria of the main study

Practice & practice personnel Patients
Inclusion criteria

- Legal age

- Ability to consent

- Established, licensed physicians and assistants

- Based in Baden-Wuerttemberg or North Rhine-Westphalia

- Working computer system with internet connection

- Patients physically visit the practice

- Insured with a statutory health insurer

- GP-study: In T2DM-DMP in 4 of 5 past quarters

- Dentist study: Need for systemic periodontitis therapy

Exclusion criteria

Persons who :

- Live in a nursing home

- Have a legal guardian

- Are not of legal age

- Are cognitively or linguistically incapable to participate

- Are not licensed as physician

- Don’t practice in Baden-Württemberg or North Rhine-Westphalia

- Are not insured with a German statutory health insurer (or not entitled to care that exceeds basic health care coverage)

- GP-study: a periodontitis therapy in the past 12 months

- Not in the T2DM-DMP in 4 of 5 past quarters

- Dentist study: Previously diagnosed with diabetes