A nurse driven care management program to engage older diabetes patients in personalized goal setting and disease management.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Multiple diabetes care guidelines have called for the personalization of risk factor goals, medication management, and self-care plans among older patients. Study of the implementation of these recommendations is needed. This study aimed to test whether a patient survey embedded in the Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR), coupled with telephonic nurse care management, could engage patients in personalized goal setting and chronic disease management.

Methods

We conducted a single-center equal-randomization delayed comparator trial at the primary care clinics of the University of Chicago Medicine from 2018.6 to 2019.12. Patients over the age of 65 years with type 2 diabetes with an active patient portal account were recruited and randomized to receive an EHR

SUBMITTER: Zhu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11194180 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature