Status:
COMPLETED
Diabetes Connect: Patients and Providers Use of a Secure Website for Blood Glucose Monitoring in Type-2 Diabetes
Lead Sponsor:
Massachusetts General Hospital
Conditions:
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Currently, diabetic patients who receive their care at the diabetes clinic self monitor their blood glucose using a portable glucometer, under the direction of care providers at the clinic. We propose...
Detailed Description
The study will be carried out at multiple practices within Partners HealthCare system and will have one Intervention and one control arm. Subjects enrolled into the intervention arm will use a OneTou...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Eligibility Criteria for Partners HealthCare practices:
- Manage type-2 Diabetes patients.
- Have at least one non-Physician provider (nurse practitioner, nurse, diabetes educator) with responsibility for diabetes patient care
- Inclusion Criteria for subject selection:
- Diagnosis of type 2 diabetes
- Age 18 years or older
- English speaking/able to read English
- Last measured Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) \> 7.5 % in the last 12 months.
- Prescribed glucose self-monitoring, and either currently self monitoring or willing to monitor their blood glucose, as prescribed by their care provider, using the OneTouch Ultra2 portable glucometer.
- Access to the Internet for the 6 months the study will run.
- Access to a compatible analog telephone line at either their work place or home such that the subjects are able to upload the glucometer readings to the website.
- Access to an active email account.
- Receiving diabetes care primarily within the practice.
- Exclusion Criteria for subject selection:
- Subjects having mental health, cognitive or physical impairments that would preclude the set up and use of the modem, glucometer or computer.
- Subjects are not candidates for guideline-based diabetes care.
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
February 1 2009
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
October 1 2009
Estimated Enrollment :
20 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00812539
Start Date
February 1 2009
End Date
October 1 2009
Last Update
August 2 2013
Active Locations (1)
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Partners HealthCare Hospitals/Clinics (Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Womens Hospital)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114