Increasing Uptake of EHR-enabled Population Health Outreach Strategies to Improve Diabetes Screening

Launched by UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · Feb 6, 2023

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ClinConnect Summary

The research team will conduct a pragmatic, split cluster randomized controlled trial (clinic=cluster; patient randomization) in 12 community-based primary care clinics in an integrated safety net health system serving a high-risk, racially/ethnically diverse population.

Gender

ALL

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Patient is alive at time of data extraction
• • Age \>= 18 at time of data extraction and \<76
• • Visit with PCP at Parkland clinic in the last 18 months (548 days), where Encounter type = Virtual Visit or Encounter type = Office Visit
• • Patient NOT included in Parkland Diabetes Registry
• • Preferred language is Spanish or English
• • Ethnicity is Hispanic or Non-Hispanic
• • Race is White or Black
• • Patient is not pregnant in last 12 months
• • Exclusion Criteria for Study Population 1: Prediabetes Glycemic Risk Group
• • Last A1C value \<5.7 (normal)
• • Last A1C value \>6.4 (diabetes)
• • Last A1C value = blank (unchecked)
• • Last A1C date occurred within last 12 months from date of export
• • Exclusion Criteria for Study Population 2: Score-Based Glycemic Risk Group
• • Risk score \<9
• • Last A1C date occurred in last 30 months from date of export
• • Last A1C value was \>5.7 (PDM/DM)