Guideline adherence and health outcomes in diabetes mellitus type 2 patients: a cross-sectional study

Table 1 Construction of guideline adherence scores, divided into structures and process indicators of care

Structure score ¹	Points
System for collecting patient experience feedback	0 or 1
Regulations on access to patient files	0 or 1
Quarterly multidisciplinary meetings	0 or 1
Policies for checking medical equipment	0 or 1
Practice nurse trained in self-management	0 or 1
Policy for no-show patients	0 or 1
Score range	0-6
Process score ²
Annual assessment of BMI	0-1
Annual assessment of blood pressure	0-1
Annual assessment of HbA1c	0-1
Annual assessment of LDL cholesterol	0-1
Annual assessment of urine albumin	0-1
Annual assessment of GFR	0-1
Annual assessment of smoking behavior	0-1
Annual foot examination	0-1
Annual eye examination	0-1
Score range	0-9

¹Structure score, composite score of different structure indicators of care, scoring: present = 1 point, absent = 0 points.
²Process score, composite score of different process indicators of care, the proportion of patients per practice that were tested annually for each indicator, range between 0 and 1.

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