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Table 4 Stakeholders and the input in the study design

From: Three approaches to glucose monitoring in non-insulin treated diabetes: a pragmatic randomized clinical trial protocol

Stakeholders

Input provided

How it shaped our design

Diabetes Advisory Council/State Department of Health (DAC)

Consider health literacy issues of patients

Policy subgroup would be useful to engage for this work

- Engaged the Center for Diabetes Translation and Research literacy core to join our team and assist with message tailoring

- Tailoring algorithm that could be used in office

- Brought in Diabetes Advisory Council as a policy subgroup

UNC Patient Advisory Board

Emphasize quality of life questions (e.g, Can I feel better or improve my ADLs?)

Added quality of life to outcomes

Greensboro Community Advisory Board

Important outcomes: Quality of life, hypoglycemia, health care service use, and patient empowerment.

CMEs for providers,

Query patient/provider community care

Hypoglycemia added as an outcome

CME added for providers

Added survey questions about patient-provider communication

Diabetes Center Patient Database

A1C is important in addition to Quality of life

A1C designated as a primary outcome

UNCPN Medical Directors

Testing is quite variable in real world clinical settings

Designed three-armed plan to address this reality and better respond to pragmatic patient issues.