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Evaluating structured care for diabetes: can calibration on margins help to avoid overestimation of the benefits? An illustration from French diabetes provider networks using data from the ENTRED Survey.

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OBJECTIVE:While there is growing evidence on the effectiveness of structured care for diabetic patients in trial settings, standard population level evaluations may misestimate intervention benefits due to patient selection. In order to account for potential biases in measuring intervention benefits, we tested the impact of calibration on margins as a novel adjustment method in an evaluation context compared with simple poststratification. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS:We compared the results of a before-after evaluation on HbA1c levels after 1 year of enrollment in a French diabetes provider network (DPN) using an unadjusted sample and samples adjusted by simple poststratification to results obtained after adjustment via calibration on margins to the general diabetic population's characteristics using a national cross-sectional sample of diabetic patients. RESULTS:Both with and without adjustment, patients in the DPN had significantly lower HbA1c levels after 1 year of enrollment. However, the reductions in HbA1c levels among the adjusted samples were 22-183% lower than those measured in the unadjusted sample, regardless of the poststratification method and characteristics used. Compared with simple poststratification, estimations using calibration on margins exhibited higher performance. CONCLUSIONS:Evaluations of diabetes management interventions based on uncontrolled before-after experiments may overestimate the actual benefit for patients. This can be corrected by using poststratification approaches when data on the ultimate target population for the intervention are available. In order to more accurately estimate the effect an intervention would have if extended to the target population, calibration on margins seems to be preferable over simple poststratification in terms of performance and usability.

journal_name

Diabetes Care

journal_title

Diabetes care

authors

Chevreul K,Brunn M,Cadier B,Nolte E,Durand-Zaleski I

doi

10.2337/dc13-2141

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-07-01 00:00:00

pages

1892-9

issue

eissn

0149-5992

issn

1935-5548

pii

dc13-2141

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Evaluating structured care for diabetes: can calibration on margins help to avoid overestimation of the benefits? An illustration from French diabetes provider networks using data from the ENTRED Survey.