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Evaluation of a Toolkit to Improve Cardiovascular Disease Screening and Treatment for People With Diabetes

NCT ID: NCT01411865

Last Updated: 2014-11-24

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

933789 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2011-08-31

Study Completion Date

2011-10-31

Brief Summary

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Diabetes is a common and serious chronic disease. However, there is a large gap between the level of care that people should receive (based on research and guidelines) and the level of care they actually receive. With the release of their 2008 Clinical Practice Guidelines, the Canadian Diabetes Association has a strategy to improve heart disease screening and treatment for people with diabetes. This study will evaluate whether the strategy works. The focus of the strategy was to give all family physicians in Canada a Toolkit in June 2009 to help them delivery better care for their diabetic patients. In Ontario, only half of doctors received this Toolkit. We will compare the quality of care received by diabetic patients whose doctors received this Toolkit versus those who doctors did not.

Detailed Description

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A cardiovascular disease Toolkit was developed by the Canadian Diabetes Association and mailed to family physician with the Spring/Summer 2009 edition of the newsletter, Canadian Diabetes. The Toolkit was packaged in a brightly-coloured box with Canadian Diabetes Association branding, and contained: 1) an introductory letter from the Chair of the practice guidelines' Dissemination and Implementation Committee; 2) an eight page summary of selected sections of the practice guidelines targeted towards primary care physicians; 3) a four page synopsis of the key guideline elements pertaining to cardiovascular disease risk; 4) a small double-sided laminated card with a simplified algorithm for cardiovascular risk assessment, vascular protection strategies and screening for cardiovascular disease; and 5) a pad of tear-off sheets for patients with a cardiovascular risk self-assessment tool and a list of recommended risk reduction strategies.

Conditions

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Diabetes Mellitus Cardiovascular Disease

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Intervention

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Toolkit

Intervention Type OTHER

Cardiovascular Disease Toolkit mailed by the Canadian Diabetes Association to family physicians, accompanying the Spring/Summer 2009 edition of the quarterly newsletter, Canadian Diabetes. (Mailed in June 2009.) The Toolkit includes a summary of selected sections of the practice guidelines targeted towards primary care physicians; a synopsis of the key messages pertaining to cardiovascular disease risk; a laminated card with a simplified algorithm for cardiovascular risk assessment and treatment; and a pad of tear-off sheets for patients with a cardiovascular risk self-assessment tool.

Control

Group Type OTHER

Control

Intervention Type OTHER

The Spring/Summer 2009 issue of the quarterly newsletter, Canadian Diabetes, mailed on its own. The Cardiovascular Toolkit was mailed with the May 2010 issue of the newsletter.

Interventions

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Toolkit

Cardiovascular Disease Toolkit mailed by the Canadian Diabetes Association to family physicians, accompanying the Spring/Summer 2009 edition of the quarterly newsletter, Canadian Diabetes. (Mailed in June 2009.) The Toolkit includes a summary of selected sections of the practice guidelines targeted towards primary care physicians; a synopsis of the key messages pertaining to cardiovascular disease risk; a laminated card with a simplified algorithm for cardiovascular risk assessment and treatment; and a pad of tear-off sheets for patients with a cardiovascular risk self-assessment tool.

Intervention Type OTHER

Control

The Spring/Summer 2009 issue of the quarterly newsletter, Canadian Diabetes, mailed on its own. The Cardiovascular Toolkit was mailed with the May 2010 issue of the newsletter.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Alive on 1 July 2009 with prevalent diabetes

Exclusion Criteria

* Age \<= 39
* Residing in long-term care

Secondary Analysis:
Minimum Eligible Age

40 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Baiju R Shah, MD, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Locations

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Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Site Status

Countries

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Canada

References

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Shah BR, Bhattacharyya O, Yu CH, Mamdani MM, Parsons JA, Straus SE, Zwarenstein M. Effect of an educational toolkit on quality of care: a pragmatic cluster randomized trial. PLoS Med. 2014 Feb 4;11(2):e1001588. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001588. eCollection 2014 Feb.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 24505216 (View on PubMed)

Related Links

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http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01026688

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Other Identifiers

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Shah-2

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id