A Practice-nurse Addressed Intervention to Improve Type 2 Diabetes Care

Inclusion Criteria

• •The intervention-study comprises 40 general practices were:
• •1. more than 50% of the patients with type 2 diabetes, who had participated in diabetes-consultations during the last year from the invitation-date to the project, were seen by a nurse at least once, stated by the practice. The diabetes-consultation should not only include examinations (blood tests and blood pressure measurement), but should also include communication about living with type 2 diabetes ;
• •2. enrollment in the project before registration deadline (three weeks after invitation).
• •Patients with diabetes, alive and affiliated the practices by May 2011, were identified in a a validated diabetes database based on health registers; The national Patient Registry, The national Health Insurance Service registry, the prescription database and the laboratory database in the county.