Evaluating the implementation of a national clinical programme for diabetes to standardise and improve services: a realist evaluation protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Over the last three decades in response to the growing burden of diabetes, countries worldwide have developed national and regional multifaceted programmes to improve the monitoring and management of diabetes and to enhance the coordination of care within and across settings. In Ireland in 2010, against a backdrop of limited dedicated strategic planning and engrained variation in the type and level of diabetes care, a national programme was established to standardise and improve care for people with diabetes in Ireland, known as the National Diabetes Programme (NDP). The NDP comprises a range of organisational and service delivery changes to support evidence-based practices and policies. This realist evaluation protocol sets out the approach that will be used to identify

SUBMITTER: McHugh S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4964144 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature