Development and pilot test of a peer-support based Cardiac-Diabetes Self-Management Program: A study protocol

• Main Authors: Courtney Mary (Author), Shortridge-Baggett Lillie M (Author), Chang Anne M (Author), Wu Chiung-Jung (Author), Kostner Karam (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>People with cardiac disease and type 2 diabetes have higher hospital readmission rates (22%) compared to those without diabetes (6%). Self-management is an effective approach to achieve better health outcomes; however there is a lack...