Alphabet Strategy for diabetes care: A multi-professional, evidence-based, outcome-directed approach to management

Table 2 Comparison of achievement of Alphabet Strategy components between practice of evidence-based medicine audits

	Alphabet strategy	POEM 1n = 420	POEM 2n = 1071	P value
A	Smoking status (%)	15.5	14.7	0.83
B	Blood pressure (mmHg)	141/77	136/76	0.007
C	Total cholesterol (mmol/L)	4.9	4.5	< 0.001
	LDL cholesterol (mmol/L)	2.5	2.4	< 0.001
	Creatinine (mmol/L)	109	105	0.036
D	HbA1c (%)	8.3	7.9	0.09
E	Eye examination (%)	95.5	97.1	0.72
F	Foot examination (%)	83.5	97.3	< 0.001
G	Aspirin (%)	83.5	88.0	0.20
	ACEI/ARB (%)	73.0	74.4	0.75
	Lipid lowering (%)	55.0	73.4	< 0.001

POEM: Practice of evidence-based medicine.