Developing and evaluating the effectiveness of educational prompts in improving diabetes care

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN21863140

Enrollment

Registered

2005-07-25

Start date

2005-07-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2018-09-10

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Conditions

Diabetes mellitus Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine Unspecified diabetes mellitus

Interventions

Short educational messages added to paper and electronic general practice laboratory test reports of Haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c). Practices, stratified by list size, will be randomly allocated to each int

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: General practices in Newcastle upon Tyne

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Does not meet inclusion criteria

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Number of HbA1c and cholesterol tests requested (standardised for practice size) and the general practice mean levels of HbA1c and cholesterol.	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
No secondary outcome measures	—

Countries

United Kingdom

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026