| Is physician engagement with Web-based CME associated with patients' baseline hemoglobin A1c levels? The Rural Diabetes Online Care study. | |
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PMID: 20736679 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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PURPOSE: To investigate the association between physician participants' levels of engagement in a Web-based educational intervention and their patients' baseline diabetes measures. METHOD: The authors conducted a randomized trial of online CME activities designed to improve diabetes care provided by family, general, and internal medicine physicians in rural areas of 11 southeastern states between September 2006 and July 2008. Using incidence rate ratios derived from negative binomial models, the relationship between physicians' engagement with the study Web site and baseline proportion of their patients having controlled diabetes (hemoglobin A1c < or = 7%) was explored. RESULTS: One hundred thirty-three participants (intervention = 64; control = 69) provided information for 1,637 patients with diabetes. In the intervention group, physicians in practices in the worst quartiles of A1c control were least engaged with the study Web site in nearly all dimensions. Total number of pages viewed decreased as quartile of A1c control worsened (137, 73, 68, 57; P = .007); similarly, for a given 10% increase in proportion of patients with controlled A1c, participants viewed 1.13 times more pages (95% CI: 1.02-1.26, P = .02). In the control group, engagement was neither correlated with A1c control nor different across quartiles of A1c control. CONCLUSIONS: Engagement in Web-based interventions is measurable and has important implications for research and education. Because physicians of patients with the greatest need for improvement in A1c control may not use online educational resources as intensely as others, other strategies may be necessary to engage these physicians in professional development activities. |
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Authors:
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Katie Crenshaw; William Curry; Amanda H Salanitro; Monika M Safford; Thomas K Houston; Jeroan J Allison; Carlos A Estrada |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Randomized Controlled Trial; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges Volume: 85 ISSN: 1938-808X ISO Abbreviation: Acad Med Publication Date: 2010 Sep |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2010-08-25 Completed Date: 2010-09-28 Revised Date: 2011-09-13 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 8904605 Medline TA: Acad Med Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 1511-7 Citation Subset: AIM; IM |
Affiliation:
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Division of Continuing Medical Education, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294-0019, USA. kcrenshaw@uab.edu |
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Diabetes Mellitus
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prevention & control* Education, Medical, Continuing* Hemoglobin A, Glycosylated / analysis* Humans Internet* Physician's Practice Patterns / statistics & numerical data* Rural Health Southeastern United States Statistics, Nonparametric |
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ID/Acronym/Agency:
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5R18DK065001/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS; R18 DK065001-04/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS |
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0/Hemoglobin A, Glycosylated |
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