ArticleCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2018
Team-based comanagement of diabetes in rural primary care.
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- Diabetes On Track: Redesigning Diabetes Management in Rural Primary Care.Diabetes spectrum : a publication of the American Diabetes Association · 2025Article
- Quality of Chronic Kidney Disease Management in Canadian Primary Care.JAMA network open · 2019Article
- Achieving quality primary care data: a description of the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network data capture, extraction, and processing in Alberta.International journal of population data science · 2019Article
- A rural physician relates.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2018Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo explore clinical indicators among patients with diabetes in southern Alberta and assess changes over time, and to compare patients with diabetes attending a reference clinic (RC), which had adapted its service model to address the specific needs of the patient population, with patients with diabetes attending comparison clinics (CCs) in the same region.
designAnalysis of longitudinal data from the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN).
settingRural southern Alberta.
participantsA community-based family medicine clinic and the 6 other CPCSSN clinics in the same region at the time of the study.
main outcome measuresA range of data elements from patients with diabetes within the RC, as well as from patients with diabetes from the CCs, were analyzed by CPCSSN to compare rates of comorbidity and mean body mass index, hemoglobin A
resultsThe RC had higher proportions of patients with comorbid conditions and a consistently higher mean body mass index. Mean HbA
conclusionThis study describes a team-based comanagement organizational model and might provide useful commentary about organizational effectiveness in primary care. Although improvement in health outcomes cannot be directly attributed to any specific change in clinic organization, some statistically and likely clinically significant benefit was found associated with the service model of the RC in a relatively medically and socially challenged patient population and in a conservative evaluative design.
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