Specialty outpatient care of diabetic patients in Poland--are we far from treatment targets? Rationale, design, and preliminary results of the OPTIMO study.

INTRODUCTION: While clinical practice guidelines reflect the best known evidence-based approach to patient care, it is individual clinicians and patients who make decisions and treatment choices, and individual patients who actually achieve (or not) the treatment goals. OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to describe the population of diabetic patients attending specialty outpatient clinics, to characterize the management of patients with …