Role of Patient and Practice Characteristics in Variance of Treatment Quality in Type 2 Diabetes between General Practices.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Accounting for justifiable variance is important for fair comparisons of treatment quality. The variance between general practices in treatment quality of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) patients may be attributed to the underlying patient population and practice characteristics. The objective of this study is to describe the between practice differences in treatment, and identify patient and practice level characteristics that may explain these differences.

Methods

The data of 24,607 T2DM patients from 183 general practices in the Netherlands were used. Treatment variance was assessed in a cross-sectional manner for: glucose-lowering drugs/metformin, lipid-lowering drugs/statins, blood pressure-lowering drugs/ACE-inhibitor or ARB. Patient characteristics tested were age,

SUBMITTER: Cho YY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5091743 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature