Research Article Towards Patient-Oriented Diabetes Care: Results from Two KORA Surveys in Southern Germany

Copyright © 2015 Michaela Schunk et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objective. This study aims to examine the relationship of diabetes care processes and patient outcomes with an expanded set of indicators regarding patient-oriented care delivery, such as treatment satisfaction, the quality of patient-physician relationship, and a wider range of patient outcomes such as self-management, health behaviour, disease-related burden, and health-related quality of life (HRQL).Methods. The study population consisted of 486 participants with type 2 diabetes in two population-base