Is physician engagement with Web-based CME associated with patients' baseline hemoglobin A1c levels? The Rural Diabetes Online Care study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To investigate the association between physician participants' levels of engagement in a Web-based educational intervention and their patients' baseline diabetes measures.

Method

The authors conducted a randomized trial of online CME activities designed to improve diabetes care provided by family, general, and internal medicine physicians in rural areas of 11 southeastern states between September 2006 and July 2008. Using incidence rate ratios derived from negative binomial models, the relationship between physicians' engagement with the study Web site and baseline proportion of their patients having controlled diabetes (hemoglobin A1c < or = 7%) was explored.

Results

One hundred thirty-three participants (intervention = 64; control = 69) provided information

SUBMITTER: Crenshaw K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3158730 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature