Table 1 Characteristics of the ISDM intervention

Organisational meetings in the practices

Participants: GPs and the MA of the participating practices

Participants: GPs and the MA of the participating practices

Duration: one hour

Duration: one hour

Core element: Study organisational meeting

Core element: Study organisational meeting

Training for the providers

Participants: n = 4 to 6 GPs, plus the MA employed in the participating practices

n.a.

Duration: six hours

Core elements: the concept of SDM, curriculum for patient teaching, didactic lectures and role playing

Information for patients

Topic: DA on the prevention of myocardial infarction in type 2 diabetes [33].

Topic: Brief extract of the German National Disease Management Guideline on the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes, patients’ version [53]

Date of delivery: 2 weeks before teaching session

Date of delivery: 2 weeks before practice visit

Core elements: Evidence-based patient information on heart attack risk, risk factors, and different preventive options, combinations of 100-stick figure pictograms and bar graphs, and user guide for risk estimation

Core elements: Recommendations related to treatment targets and a link to the full version of the guideline [53]

Patient teaching module

Participants: n = 4 to 6 patients per group

n.a.

Duration: 90 minutes

Core elements: DA on the prevention of myocardial infarction [33], corresponding curriculum and media

Consultation with GP

Duration: Approx. 10 minutes

n.a.

Core element: Sheet for the documentation of individual treatment goals