Randomization
diabetes mellitus, diabetes
DIABETES MELLITUS, DIABETES
In total, 4 physicians with the largest numbers of patients with diabetes mellitus at the practice and 1 physician with just a few patients participated in the study. The rest of the physicians in this practice were allocated to a concurrent physician engagement study that required a larger number of physicians and were, as a result, excluded from the trial. The 5 participating physicians initially had a total of 215 eligible patients with diabetes, but upon closer review of the list, only 182 patients met the inclusion criteria to be randomized. Once a comprehensive list of patients with diabetes across the rosters of these 5 physicians was collected, they were allocated to groups by matching the list of names to a randomly created sequence of group allocations that were created on the randomizer.org website. The list contained a random sequence of one of the 4 groups in a 1:1:1:1 ratio.