The effectiveness of structured personal care of type 2 diabetes on recurrent outcomes: a 19 year follow-up of the study Diabetes Care in General Practice (DCGP)
Clinical Trial News Tuesday, June 24th, 2014Springer: June 2014
Aims/hypothesis
The estimation of effect size in clinical trials commonly disregards recurrent outcomes. We investigated the effectiveness of a complex intervention on recurrent outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes.
Methods
In the Diabetes Care in General Practice (DCGP) randomised controlled trial, 1,381 patients newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes were randomised to 6 years of structured personal care or routine care (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01074762). The trial had 19 years of registry-based follow-up and was analysed with Cox regression models. Repeated occurrences in the same patient of outcomes (any diabetes-related endpoint, myocardial infarction [MI], stroke, peripheral vascular disease and microvascular disease) were accounted for with the Wei, Lin and Weissfeld method. Read More
