TY - JOUR
T1 - Group Diabetes Self-Management Education in a Primary Care Setting
T2 - A Quality Improvement Project
AU - Harris, Tara
AU - Silva, Susan
AU - Intini, Ronald
AU - Smith, Tommy
AU - Vorderstrasse, Allison
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/4
Y1 - 2014/4
N2 - This quality improvement project evaluated the effectiveness of a monthly diabetes self-management education intervention on HbA1C and knowledge levels in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. A retrospective analysis evaluating 51 patients found no significant improvement in HbA1C levels; however, there was a significant improvement in knowledge levels. Race was an influential factor on HbA1C levels showing a significant elevation in mean HbA1C in African Americans, while there was a decrease in mean HbA1c in Caucasians over the 6-month evaluation period.
AB - This quality improvement project evaluated the effectiveness of a monthly diabetes self-management education intervention on HbA1C and knowledge levels in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. A retrospective analysis evaluating 51 patients found no significant improvement in HbA1C levels; however, there was a significant improvement in knowledge levels. Race was an influential factor on HbA1C levels showing a significant elevation in mean HbA1C in African Americans, while there was a decrease in mean HbA1c in Caucasians over the 6-month evaluation period.
KW - Diabetes self-management education
KW - Glycosylated hemoglobin
KW - Patient education
KW - Quality improvement
KW - Type 2 diabetes mellitus
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U2 - 10.1097/NCQ.0b013e3182aa08b7
DO - 10.1097/NCQ.0b013e3182aa08b7
M3 - Article
C2 - 24121861
AN - SCOPUS:84894563976
SN - 1057-3631
VL - 29
SP - 188
EP - 193
JO - Journal of Nursing Care Quality
JF - Journal of Nursing Care Quality
IS - 2
ER -