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Annals of family medicine · May 2021
Shared Medical Appointments and Prediabetes: The Power of the Group.
- Aphrodite Papadakis, Elizabeth R Pfoh, Bo Hu, Xiaobo Liu, Michael B Rothberg, and Anita D Misra-Hebert.
- Department of Family Medicine Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio papadaa@ccf.org.
- Ann Fam Med. 2021 May 1; 19 (3): 258261258-261.
AbstractShared medical appointments, which allow greater access to care and provide peer support, may be an effective treatment modality for prediabetes. We used a retrospective propensity-matched cohort analysis to compare patients attending a prediabetes shared medical appointment to usual care. Primary outcome was patient's weight change over 24 months. Secondary outcomes included change in hemoglobin A1c, low density lipoprotein, and systolic blood pressure. The shared medical appointments group lost more weight (2.88 kg vs 1.29 kg, P = .003), and achieved greater reduction in hemoglobin A1c (-0.87% vs +0.87%, P = .001) and systolic blood pressure (-4.35 mmHg vs +0.52 mmHg, P = .044). The shared medical appointment model can be effective in treating prediabetes.© 2021 Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.
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