More Evidence to Support “Outsourcing” of Diabetes Care
- From the Clinical Trials Unit, Charles R. Drew University, Los Angeles, California
- Address correspondence and reprint requests to Mayer B. Davidson, MD, Director, Clinical Trials Unit, Charles R. Drew University, 1731 East 120th St., Los Angeles, CA 90059. E-mail: madavids{at}cdrewu.edu
In the January issue of Diabetes Care, there were three articles that provided additional support for “outsourcing” diabetes care to improve outcome measures (1). In the first (2), individual, self-planned, intensive programs were established in 19 community health centers. Most health centers performed at least 30 different interventions during the year. The most common ones were to 1) provide a diabetes flow sheet (100%), 2) collaborate with community organizations that represented the health center’s population (89%), 3) provide a patient self-management or goal sheet to track his or her progress (63%), 4) redesign the delivery system to include group cluster visits (63%), and 5) use computer information systems to follow-up on examination and laboratory data (37%). A comparison of the results in 989 …
