ED Diabetes Screening and Outpatient Care - Aim 3

Conditions studied

Diabetes Mellitus, Non Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus

About this study

This goal of this NIH funded R01 study is to identify risk factors for not being able to follow-up for a new diagnosis of diabetes in the emergency department and improve linkage of these newly diagnosed patients to appropriate outpatient care. Its three aims will be accomplished through 1) a retrospective chart review of emergency department (ED) patients screened for diabetes, 2) a series of prospective qualitative interviews among ED patients with newly diagnosed diabetes who fail to follow-up for outpatient care, and 3) a simple randomized controlled trial to test the efficacy of telehealth bridge visits to connect ED patients with newly diagnosed diabetes to outpatient primary care.

Interventions

• Other: Telehealth Bridge Visits — Patients will be scheduled for a telemedicine visit staffed by a family or internal medicine trained physician who will assess their understanding and answer any questions about the new diagnosis of diabetes, start initial conversations about how to improve their habits around diet and exercise, and discuss medication options for diabetes and, if appropriate, initiate treatment. At the end of the telemedicine visit, providers will attempt to address any difficulties that patients are experiencing in accessing primary care by providing an alternative contact for care or reaching out to a primary care doctor as necessary. If the patient experiences difficulties accessing a primary care provider based on their first telemedicine visit, then an additional telemedicine visit can be scheduled for the patient.
• Other: Standard of Care — Standard of care currently includes calls from the site's follow-up center to see if patients received their HbA1c result, understood what their result meant, had any problems accessing medications prescribed or any difficulty scheduling an outpatient follow-up visit.

Primary outcomes

• Percent of Patients who Complete at least One In-Person Follow-up Outpatient Visit (Up to Month 6 Post-Diagnosis)

Eligibility information

Study locations

• NYU Langone Health, New York, New York 10016 United States