Stepping up: A nurse-led model of care for insulin initiation for people with type 2 diabetes

Family Practice

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 349-356

  Furlera, John S ^a   Blackberry, Irene D ^a   Walker, Christine ^a   Manski Nankervis, Jo Anne ^a   Anderson, Jenny ^a   O'Neal, David ^a   Young, Doris ^a   Best, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus type 2; General practice; Patient care team; Primary nursing; Quality of health care

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; INSULIN; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIABETIC PATIENT; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INSULIN TREATMENT; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NURSE; NURSING THEORY; PATIENT CARE; PEER GROUP; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROLE PLAYING; STEPPING UP MODEL; TIME MANAGEMENT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; NURSING PRACTICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIMARY CARE NURSING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84894290845     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: 14602229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmt085     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Inzucchi SE, Bergenstal RM, Buse JB et al. Management of hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes: a patient-centered approach: position statement of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD). Diabetes Care 2012; 35: 1364-79.
2. Spence D. Bad medicine: the way we manage diabetes. BMJ. 2013; 346.
3. Yudkin JS, Richter B, Gale EA. Intensified glucose lowering in type 2 diabetes: time for a reappraisal. Diabetologia 2010; 53: 2079-85.
4. Davies M, Lavalle-González F, Storms F, Gomis R. Initiation of insulin glargine therapy in type 2 diabetes subjects suboptimally controlled on oral antidiabetic agents: results from the AT.LANTUS trial. Diabetes Obes Metab 2008; 10: 387-99.
5. Pradhan AD, Everett BM, Cook NR, Rifai N, Ridker PM. Effects of initiating insulin and metformin on glycemic control and inflammatory biomarkers among patients with type 2 diabetes: the LANCET randomized trial. JAMA 2009; 302: 1186-94.
6. Raskin P, Matfin G, Schwartz SL et al. Addition of biphasic insulin aspart 30 to optimized metformin and pioglitazone treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus: the ACTION Study (Achieving Control Through Insulin plus Oral ageNts). Diabetes Obes Metab 2009; 11: 27-32.
7. Polonsky WH, Fisher L, Guzman S, Villa-Caballero L, Edelman SV. Psychological insulin resistance in patients with type 2 diabetes: the scope of the problem. Diabetes Care 2005; 28: 2543-5.
8. Parchman ML, Pugh JA, Romero RL, Bowers KW. Competing demands or clinical inertia: the case of elevated glycosylated hemoglobin. Ann Fam Med 2007; 5: 196-201.
9. AIHW Australian GP Statistics and Classification Centre. Diabetes in General Practice Patients. SAND Abstract No. 135 from the BEACH program, 2009. AGPSCC University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
10. Waddingham S. Time to start insulin in General Practice. Br J Prim Care Nurs. 2012; 9: 114-7.
11. Davis TM, Davis Cyllene Uwa Edu Au WA, Bruce DG. Glycaemic levels triggering intensification of therapy in type 2 diabetes in the community: the Fremantle Diabetes Study. Med J Aust 2006; 184: 325-8.
12. Blak BT, Smith HT, Hards M, Maguire A, Gimeno V. A retrospective database study of insulin initiation in patients with Type 2 diabetes in UK primary care. Diabet Med 2012; 29: e191-8.
13. Jackson C, Tsai J, Brown C, Askew D, Russell A. GPs with special interests-impacting on complex diabetes care. Aust Fam Physician 2010; 39: 972-4.
14. Nocon A, Rhodes PJ, Wright JP et al. Specialist general practitioners and diabetes clinics in primary care: a qualitative and descriptive evaluation. Diabet Med 2004; 21: 32-8.
15. Furler J, Hii JW, Liew D et al. The "cost" of treating to target: crosssectional analysis of patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes in Australian general practice. BMC Fam Pract 2013; 14: 32.
16. Department of Health and Ageing. Towards a National Primary Health Care Strategy: A Discussion Paper from the Australian Government. Canberra, Australia: Commonwealth of Australia, 2008.
17. May CR, Mair FS, Dowrick CF, Finch TL. Process evaluation for complex interventions in primary care: understanding trials using the normalization process model. BMC Fam Pract 2007; 8: 42.
18. Furler J, Spitzer O, Young D, Best J. Insulin in general practice-barriers and enablers for timely initiation. Aust Fam Physician 2011; 40: 617-21.
19. May C. Towards a general theory of implementation. Implement Sci 2013; 8: 18.
20. Guest G, MacQueen K, Namey E. Applied Thematic Analysis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2012.
21. Ehrlich C, Kendall E, St John W. How does care coordination provided by registered nurses "fit" within the organisational processes and professional relationships in the general practice context. Collegian 2013; 20: 127-35.
22. Gask L, Bower P, Lovell K et al. What work has to be done to implement collaborative care for depression? Process evaluation of a trial utilizing the Normalization Process Model. Implement Sci 2010; 5: 15.
23. Gallacher K, May CR, Montori VM, Mair FS. Understanding patients' experiences of treatment burden in chronic heart failure using normalization process theory. Ann Fam Med 2011; 9: 235-43
24. Desborough J, Parker R, Forrest L. Development and implementation of a nurse-led walk-in centre: evidence lost in translation. J Health Serv Res Policy 2013; 18: 174-8.
25. Australian Medicare Local Alliance. General Practice Nurse National Survey Report, 2012. Manuka, Canberra: Australian Medicare Local Alliance, 2012
26. Harris SB, Gerstein HC, Yale JF et al. Can community retail pharmacist and diabetes expert support facilitate insulin initiation by family physicians? Results of the AIM@GP randomized controlled trial. BMC Health Serv Res 2013; 13: 71.
27. Dale J, Martin S, Gadsby R. Insulin initiation in primary care for patients with type 2 diabetes: 3-year follow-up study. Prim Care Diabetes 2010; 4: 85-9.
28. Nathan DM, Buse JB, Davidson MB et al. Management of hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes: a consensus algorithm for the initiation and adjustment of therapy: update regarding thiazolidinediones: a consensus statement from the American Diabetes Association and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. Diabetes Care 2008; 31: 173-5.