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R2D2C2 is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Finding Answers Program, The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), and Novo Nordisk. |
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About Reducing Racial Disparities in Diabetes: The Coached Care ProjectReducing Racial Disparities in Diabetes: The Coached Care Project (R2D2C2) aims to improve care and decrease disparities in Caucasians, Latinos and Asian Americans with type 2 diabetes. R2D2C2 is being implemented among a diverse ethnic, geographic and economic subset of these populations, concentrating on the patient-provider interaction and focusing on problem areas of treatment and lifestyle modification that need to be identified, discussed, and negotiated between the patient and the provider. Specifically, R2D2C2 focuses on:
The program is novel in its use of community-based "coaches," recruited directly from each target community, and who themselves have type 2 diabetes. These community-based coaches are trained to increase patient participation during office visits with the aim to improve patients’ health outcomes and reduce disparities. |