CHRT Project: Diabetes Care

Addressing Disparities in Diabetes Care Among Language Minority Patients

Goals

The objectives of the study are to improve diabetes care and self-management for Spanish-speaking patients by:

• Providing patients with tailored, language appropriate information and advice to better manage their self-care
• Improving communication between those patients and their clinician teams
• Enabling patients’ informal care-giving networks to fill gaps in self-management support resulting from inadequate reimbursement and limited primary care services

Investigators

John D. Piette, PhD, MS
Senior VA Research Career Scientist and Professor of Internal Medicine, U-M School of Medicine
Director, UM/VA Program on Quality Improvement for Complex Chronic Conditions

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