The follow-up questionnaire was developed by a group comprising practicing family physicians, including an expert in issues concerning medical decision-making (GB).
The quantitative data comprised practice and health authority service records.
The content of MPC's clinical records comprises practice management data, results from detailed patient questionnaires, and detailed progress notes, all derived from approximately 95,000 patient visits per year.
Baseline data comprised practice and clinician profile, patients' socio-demography, diabetes profile (duration, complication, prescription, glycaemic control), comorbidities (eg, hypertension, coronary artery disease, dyslipidaemia and chronic kidney disease) and previous T2DM education.
Professional networks were widely used and comprised practice-based peer-mediated information about the innovations' relevance to the local setting.
Although one objective of DPBRN is to comprise practices from which results should be generalizable to practices at large, another equally-important objective is that these practices also constitute a diverse range of practitioner-investigators, practice settings, patient populations, and geographic locations.
Interventions comprising mindfulness practice are a relatively new approach to the prevention and treatment of mental health problems.
We intended to enroll 120 practices from among a targeted group of 160 "high-volume" practices comprising 104 pediatric practices that provided care to between 434 and 14,750 Medicaid eligible children aged 0 3 yrs in 1999, and 56 family medicine practices that provided care to between 258 and 1,720 such children in 1999.
The method is based on a reference process comprising different practices.
The report nonetheless identifies the kinds of non-formal education opportunities available and what comprises 'good' practice therein, foci both valuable to our project.
The teams were comprised of practice teachers and teacher educators that varied in their degree of familiarity with working collaboratively as a learning partnership.
