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Diabetes MellitusNOMADNCT05913726

MDT Conferences for People With Diabetes and Multimorbidity

An observational study of Diabetes Mellitus and Comorbidities and Coexisting Conditions, run by Odense University Hospital at 1 site in Denmark.

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Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

The goal of this observational study is to test if regular meetings (multidisciplinary team conferences) between several different medical doctors can work well in everyday hospital life. The doctor meetings are meant to discuss patients who have both diabetes and other chronic conditions at the same time. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
How many people
55 participants
Where
1 siteDenmark
Study dates
1 Aug 2023to 1 Jul 2025
Phase
Observational
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Study population: Study population consists of all adult residents in the geographical region of Funen, Denmark, who meet eligibility criteria. Funen inhabits approximately 500.000.

Who may be able to join

  • Adult, any type of diabetes, diabetes management by general practitioner or Steno Diabetes Centre Odense, minimum one chronic condition within heart, kidney or lung specialities.

Who cannot join

  • none

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

Denmark1 site
  • Odense University Hospital

    Odense, 5000

Other trials in Denmark

About this study

Official title: Network of Doctors for Multimorbidity and Diabetes - The NOMAD Intervention: Protocol for Feasibility Trial of Multidisciplinary Team Conferences for People With Diabetes and Multimorbidity

The goal of this observational study is to test if regular meetings (multidisciplinary team conferences) between several different medical doctors can work well in everyday hospital life. The doctor meetings are meant to discuss patients who have both diabetes and other chronic conditions at the same time.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

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  • How can the concept of these meetings work in everyday hospital life?
  • What are the patients and doctors getting out of the meetings?

Patients with diabetes and concurrent other diseases will be asked:

  • if they want their case discussed on the doctor meeting
  • to answer a set of questions about their well-being and symptoms before and 6 months after the meeting
  • if the research group can store their information for the study

Doctors participating in the meetings are asked to answer questions about what they have learned in the meetings.

Read the detailed description

Introduction: Many people struggle with several chronic conditions at once. This is known as multimorbidity. The prevalence of multimorbidity is rising. Diabetes is one of the chronic conditions often associated with multimorbidity. The prevalence of diabetes is likewise increasing world-wide.

Having diabetes and multimorbidity can be a great burden for a person as they have to deal with symptoms, treatments, lifestyle changes and checkups. The picture complicates as many healthcare systems have a disease-specific approach rather than a patient-centered approach. This often leads to multiple different outpatient clinic contacts, possibly uncoordinated treatment and fragmented care. One can view the patient as a nomad between departments and sectors, often lacking coherence.

The aim of this study is to feasibility test a complex intervention designed to coordinate care and treatment for people with diabetes and multimorbidity prior to a large-scale randomised trial.

Intervention: To gain a more patient-centered approach, better coordination of care and treatment and possibly increase life quality for people with diabetes and multimorbidity, a working group has set out to develop a complex intervention guided by relevant guidelines. The intervention consists of multidisciplinary team conferences (MDT) performed by medical doctors within the specialities of endocrinology, cardiology, respiratory medicine, nephrology and clinical pharmacology, called Network of dOctors for Multimorbidity and Diabetes - NOMAD. The doctors sit together every two weeks to discuss the treatment, coordinate care and review medications of referred patients with diabetes and minimum one other condition within the collaborating specialities. Patients can be referred from hospital departments or from their general practitioner (GP), in which case, the GP attends the meeting by video conference. Prior to the MDT, a questionnaire concerning health related quality of life is sent out to the patient. The same questionnaire is sent out 6 months after the MDT and followed by a contact to the patient - either physical or by phone by healthcare professional. The doctors review the answers before the MDT and use them as discussion support in the MDT. All doctors attending the MDT have time scheduled prior to MDT to prepare and read about the patients. Especially the clinical pharmacologist has extended preparation time to ensure a thorough review of the patients medications list - which oftentimes consist of more than 15 different prescriptions.

Methods: This is a one-arm mixed-methods feasibility study of a complex intervention. The MDT conferences will be evaluated for feasibility through prospectively collected data. The evaluation will be based on the following process indicators:

  1. completion of PRO-questionnaire
  2. technical issues before, during or after MDT
  3. time schedule in MDT kept or not
  4. does MDT conclusion note correspond to MDT referral letter?
  5. clinician preparation time

The patients' perspectives will be explored through the questionnaires and also through interviews of a selection of participants - both intervention receivers and providers, contributing to a qualitative process evaluation. The feasibility of using (patient-reported outcome, PRO) a collection of generic, validated questionnaires to measure intervention effect will be assessed. Through a run-time of 17 months, approximately 120 participants are anticipated. Results will be reported narratively and with descriptive statistics. The interviews will be reported in a separate paper.

Ethics: As the study focuses mainly on an organisational level, detailed information on individual level is not required. The scientific ethics committee has been requested for approval, replying that this study is exempt from ethics approval as it collects no human material (ref. number: 20222000 - 150).

The study is registered in list of research/quality-development projects in Region of Southern Denmark (ref. number: 22/56265).

Implications: This study will provide valuable insights into how a complex intervention of MDTs can be implemented in clinical practice, how it is received by end-users and provide decision-makers with useful experience on how to organise such an intervention. Furthermore it will elucidate the use of PRO and laboratory values as effect measures. All of this will lay the grounds for a future randomised trial where efficiency, effectiveness and clinical effect of MDT can be evaluated.

Keywords
Multidisciplinary team conferences, Feasibility
Medical subject headings
Diabetes Mellitus

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Recruitment

    Number of patients referred to MDT. Reported as total number of referred patients throughout the project period and as mean/median per MDT.

    Measured: Full project period, 17 months.

  2. Completion of PRO-questionnaire

    How many participants completed the PRO-questionnaire. Reported as absolute number and percentage of total number of participants.

    Measured: Full project period, 17 months.

  3. Technical difficulties i relation to MDT

    How many times did technical difficulties occur i relation to MDT. Technical difficulties defined as 1) problem with sending/receiving referral letter, 2) managing PRO-questionnaire completion, 3) problems with video, sound or connection during MDT or 4) problems with contacting participant for followup. Reported as absolute numbers and percentage of all MDTs.

    Measured: Full project period, 17 months.

  4. Time schedule

    Was time schedule kept on MDT? Simple count of how often time schedule of 30 minutes per patient case was NOT kept. Reported as absolute number and percentage of total number of patient cases.

    Measured: Full project period, 17 months.

  5. MDT recommendations

    How often are MDT recommendations initiated? Assessed at 6 month follow up by examining electronic patient records and conversation with participant. Reported as simple count of how many times recommendations are followed/initiated and percentage of recommendations followed out of total MDT recommendations.

    Measured: Assessed at 6 month follow up.

  6. Clinician preparation time

    How many minutes does each clinician take to prepare an MDT case discussion? Assessed by survey completed by clinicians at end of each MDT case discussion. Reported as means and medians in whole minutes.

    Measured: Full project period, 17 months.

Secondary outcomes (2)
  1. Laboratory values

    A simple count of how many participants who have relevant laboratory values (HbA1C, LDL, creatinine) less than 90 days old at time point of referral and time point of 6 months follow up. Reported as absolute numbers and percentages.

    Measured: Assessed at time point of referral to MDT and 6 months after MDT.

  2. Clinician learning

    To which degree did the clinician find the MDT case discussion educational/enlightening/useful for personal development? Assessed by completion of mini-survey by each clinician at the end of each MDT case discussion. Survey consists of visual analogue scale 0-100 mm. 0 indicating "not educational at all" and 100 indicating "most educational, as much as possible". Clinician learning is reported as means and medians on this scale.

    Measured: Full project period, 17 months.

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted22 Jun 2023
  2. Study start1 Aug 2023
  3. Primary completion30 Jun 2025
  4. Study completion1 Jul 2025

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Observational
Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrolment
55 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT05913726
Sponsor's protocol ID
Steno-MDT3
Acronym
NOMAD
Status last verified
Dec 2025
First submitted
26 Apr 2023
Last updated
9 Dec 2025
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No: The results will be published and shared in an international peer-reviewed journal.

Publications

  • Uijen AA, van de Lisdonk EH. Multimorbidity in primary care: prevalence and trend over the last 20 years. Eur J Gen Pract. 2008;14 Suppl 1:28-32. doi: 10.1080/13814780802436093.

    PubMed 18949641
  • Saeedi P, Petersohn I, Salpea P, Malanda B, Karuranga S, Unwin N, Colagiuri S, Guariguata L, Motala AA, Ogurtsova K, Shaw JE, Bright D, Williams R; IDF Diabetes Atlas Committee. Global and regional diabetes prevalence estimates for 2019 and projections for 2030 and 2045: Results from the International Diabetes Federation Diabetes Atlas, 9th edition. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2019 Nov;157:107843. doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2019.107843. Epub 2019 Sep 10.

    PubMed 31518657
  • Williams JS, Egede LE. The Association Between Multimorbidity and Quality of Life, Health Status and Functional Disability. Am J Med Sci. 2016 Jul;352(1):45-52. doi: 10.1016/j.amjms.2016.03.004. Epub 2016 Mar 18.

    PubMed 27432034
  • Skivington K, Matthews L, Simpson SA, Craig P, Baird J, Blazeby JM, Boyd KA, Craig N, French DP, McIntosh E, Petticrew M, Rycroft-Malone J, White M, Moore L. A new framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions: update of Medical Research Council guidance. BMJ. 2021 Sep 30;374:n2061. doi: 10.1136/bmj.n2061.

    PubMed 34593508
  • O'Cathain A, Croot L, Duncan E, Rousseau N, Sworn K, Turner KM, Yardley L, Hoddinott P. Guidance on how to develop complex interventions to improve health and healthcare. BMJ Open. 2019 Aug 15;9(8):e029954. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029954.

    PubMed 31420394
  • Henriksen DP, Ennis ZN, Panou V, Hangaard J, Jensen PB, Johansson SL, Nagarajah S, Poulsen MK, Rothmann MJ, Schousboe K, Bugge SJ, Jessen LB, Schneider IR, Olsen Zwisler AD, Hojlund K, Damkier P. Physician-led in-hospital multidisciplinary team conferences with multiple medical specialities present - A scoping review. J Multimorb Comorb. 2022 Dec 7;12:26335565221141745. doi: 10.1177/26335565221141745. eCollection 2022 Jan-Dec.

    PubMed 36518524
  • Andersen JD, Jensen MH, Vestergaard P, Jensen V, Hejlesen O, Hangaard S. The multidisciplinary team in diagnosing and treatment of patients with diabetes and comorbidities: A scoping review. J Multimorb Comorb. 2023 Mar 20;13:26335565231165966. doi: 10.1177/26335565231165966. eCollection 2023 Jan-Dec.

    PubMed 36968789
  • Fortin M, Lapointe L, Hudon C, Vanasse A, Ntetu AL, Maltais D. Multimorbidity and quality of life in primary care: a systematic review. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2004 Sep 20;2:51. doi: 10.1186/1477-7525-2-51.

    PubMed 15380021
  • Menotti A, Mulder I, Nissinen A, Giampaoli S, Feskens EJ, Kromhout D. Prevalence of morbidity and multimorbidity in elderly male populations and their impact on 10-year all-cause mortality: The FINE study (Finland, Italy, Netherlands, Elderly). J Clin Epidemiol. 2001 Jul;54(7):680-6. doi: 10.1016/s0895-4356(00)00368-1.

    PubMed 11438408
  • Bugge SJ, Henriksen DP, Damkier P, Rahbek MT, Schousboe K, Rothmann MJ, Poulsen MK, Hansen C, Nagarajah S, Jensen PB, Johansson SL, Panou V, Schneider IR, Pedersen CG, Andersen JD, Hangaard J, Zwisler AO. Network of doctors for multimorbidity and diabetes - the NOMAD intervention: protocol for feasibility trial of multidisciplinary team conferences for people with diabetes and multimorbidity. Pilot Feasibility Stud. 2024 Jun 15;10(1):91. doi: 10.1186/s40814-024-01517-0.

    PubMed 38879561

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

An observational study of Diabetes Mellitus and Comorbidities and Coexisting Conditions, run by Odense University Hospital at 1 site in Denmark.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 1 inclusion and 1 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 9 Dec 2025. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in Denmark. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Recruitment (time frame: Full project period, 17 months.). The study lists 6 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT05913726, which also lists 10 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 9 Dec 2025.

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