ResearchObstetricsReferral to telephonic nurse management improves outcomes in women with gestational diabetes
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Setting
Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) is an integrated health care delivery system that provides comprehensive medical services to >3 million members located in a 14-county region in Northern California. The sociodemographic characteristics of KPNC membership closely approximate the general population ethnically and socioeconomically and represent approximately 30% of the general population in the geographic areas covered.15
We used data from the KPNC GDM registry to identify women who
Results
At medical centers where the proportion of referrals to the telephonic nurse management program was >70% at the time of delivery, women were more likely to be ≥35 years of age, of nonwhite race-ethnicity, and obese. They were also more likely to have higher education and to have used glyburide during pregnancy. Women who were referred to the program also had slightly lower fasting, 1-hour, and 2-hour glucose values during the 3-hour OGTT (Table 1).
Compared with patients with GDM from medical
Comment
Our results suggest that women receiving care at the medical centers with higher referral to a telephonic nurse management program for women with GDM was associated with a reduced likelihood of having a macrosomic infant without increasing the risk of having a low-birth-weight infant. Referral to such a program was associated with an increase in postpartum glucose testing. Few evaluations of nurse management programs exist among women with GDM11 and none of these programs used telephone
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Cite this article as: Ferrara A, Hedderson MM, Ching J, et al. Referral to telephonic nurse management improves outcomes in women with gestational diabetes. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2012;206:491.e1-5.
This study was supported in part by funds from the Translating Research into Action for Diabetes study, which was supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, grant number U58/CCU523525-03, and by grants number R18DK067334 and K23DK071552 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
The authors report no conflict of interest.