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Personalized care planning for diabetes: policy lessons from systematic reviews of consultation and self-management interventions
Primary Health Care Research & Development, 06/30/09

Graffy J et al. - The present review identifies effective interventions that are available for clinicians to use in diabetes consultations, but engaging patients requires more than this. Mechanisms to share information and decision-making need further development and evaluation to assess their impact on health outcomes. Narrowly targeted interventions focused on practitioner behaviour appear less effective than whole-system approaches. Personalized care planning offers a mechanism to integrate patient-centred medicine and support for self-management to improve diabetes care.