Clinical inertia in response to inadequate glycemic control - Do specialists differ from primary care physicians?

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Shah, BR
Hux, JE
Laupacis, A
Zinman, B
van Walraven, C
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[1] Inst Clin Evaluat Sci, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada
[2] Univ Toronto, Dept Med & Clin Epidemiol, Toronto, ON, Canada
[3] Univ Toronto, Hlth Care Res Program, Toronto, ON, Canada
[4] Mt Sinai Hosp, Samuel Lunenfeld Res Inst, Leadership Sinai Ctr Diabet, Toronto, ON M5G 1X5, Canada
[5] Univ Ottawa, Dept Med, Ottawa, ON, Canada
[6] Ottawa Hlth Res Inst, Clin Epidemiol Program, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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10.2337/diacare.28.3.600
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R5 [内科学];
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1002 ; 100201 ;
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OBJECTIVE - Diabetic patients with inadequate glycemic control ought to have their management intensified. Failure to do so can be termed "clinical inertia." Because data suggest that specialist care results in better control than primary care, we evaluated whether specialists demonstrated less clinical inertia than primary care physicians. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS - Using administrative data, we studied all non-insulm-requiring diabetic patients in eastern Ontario agd 65 or older who had Alc results >8% between September 1999 and August 2000. Drug intensification was measured by comparing glucose-lowering drug regimens in 4-month blocks before and after the elevated Alc test and was defined as 1) the addition of a new oral drug, 2)a dose increase of an existing oral drug, or 3) the initiation of insulin. Propensity score-based matching was used to control for confounding between groups. RESULTS - There were 591 patients with specialist care and 1,911 with exclusively primary care. In the matched cohorts, 45.1% of patients with specialist care versus 37.4%,with primary care had drug intensification (P = 0.009). Most of this difference was attributed to specialists' more frequent initiation of insulin in response to elevated Ale. CONCLUSIONS - Fewer than one-half of patients with high Alc levels had intensification of their medications, regardless of specialty of their physician. Specialists were more aggressive with insulin initiation than primary care physicians, which may contribute to the lower Alc levels seen with specialist care. Interventions assisting patients and physicians to recognize and overcome clinical inertia should improve diabetes care in the population.
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