Characteristics associated with glycemic control among family medicine patients with type 2 diabetes.

Background: As new payment models are developed for chronic diseases such as diabetes, there is a need to understand which patient characteristics impact glycemic control. This study examines the relationship between patient variables and glycemic control, defined as a hemoglobin A1c (A1c) level of <7%, in a cohort of family medicine patients with type 2 diabetes.

Methods: A total of 1,398 medical charts were selected using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification codes for diabetes.