Interdisciplinary diabetes care teams operating on the interface between primary and specialty care are associated with improved outcomes of care: findings from the Leuven Diabetes Project

Table 3 Interventions for UQIP versus AQIP (professional).

PROFESSIONAL
	USUAL QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (UQIP)	ADVANCED QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (AQIP)
Clinician education	Distribution of treatment protocol	Distribution of treatment protocol
	Two post-graduate educational sessions	Four post-graduate educational sessions provided by diabetologist (opinion leader):
	- Evidence based guidelines	Evidence-based guidelines and principles of shared care
	- The use of insulin	The use of insulin
		Patient-centered counseling
		Peer review
	Standard educational materials	Extended educational materials
	----	Inviting PCPs during IDCT meetings to discuss patient cases
	----	Providing structured communication forms to PCPs by IDCT
	----	Distribution of shared care protocol + referral indication
Feed-back	At start and end of project: summary of clinical performance	Every 3 months: summaries of clinical performance
	----	Every three months: benchmarking feed-back
Reminders	Clinical reminders at start and end of project	Every three months: Clinical reminders
	----	Every three months: Shared care reminders

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