Protocol for the CHORD project (community health outreach to reduce diabetes): a cluster-randomized community health worker trial to prevent diabetes

• Main Authors: Nadia Islam (Author), Thomas Gepts (Author), Isaac Lief (Author), Radhika Gore (Author), Natalie Levy (Author), Michael Tanner (Author), Yixin Fang (Author), Scott E. Sherman (Author), Mark D. Schwartz (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) affects 9.4% of US adults and children, while another 33.9% of Americans are at risk of DM. Health care institutions face many barriers to systematically delivering the preventive care needed to decrease DM incidence. Community health workers (CHWs)...