The prevalence of diabetes is increasing in parallel with the obesity epidemic. Diabetes is, therefore, a costly disease for individuals and healthcare system, generating expenses in its management and its complications. Also, it has significant social cost related to reduction of productivity. This study will evaluate the effectiveness of a multimodal intervention for Primary Health Care (PHC) teams to increase the nurse clinical role and implement individualized glycemic targets and care plan for type 2 diabetes through a pragmatic cluster-randomized clinical trial, with 1:1 allocation of health units in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Two study arms will be evaluated: 1) intervention group: will receive a set of proposed actions (redistribution of diabetes care between nurses and physicians, use of the individualized glycemic target calculator and implementation of care recommendations); 2) control group: usual follow-up in PHC.
The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of reorganization in Primary Health Care teams and individualized glycemic targets for type 2 diabetes.