TY - JOUR AU - Ackermann, Ronald T. AU - Holmes, Ann M. AU - Saha, Chandan PY - 2013 TI - Designing a Natural Experiment to Evaluate a National Health Care-Community Partnership to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes T2 - Preventing Chronic Disease JO - Prev Chronic Dis SP - E12 VL - 10 CY - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA. N2 - To address the growing incidence of type 2 diabetes in the United States, UnitedHealth Group, the YMCA of the USA, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have partnered to bring a group-based adaptation of the Diabetes Prevention Program lifestyle intervention to a national scale. Researchers at Northwestern and Indiana universities are collaborating with these partners to design a robust evaluation of the reach, effectiveness, and costs of this natural experiment. We will employ a quasi-experimental, cluster-randomized study design and combine administrative, clinical, and programmatic data from existing sources to derive reliable, timely, and policy-relevant estimates of the program's impact and potential for sustainability. In this context, evaluation results will provide information about the unique role of a health care-community partnership to prevent type 2 diabetes. SN - 1545-1151 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd10.120149 DO - 10.5888/pcd10.120149 ER -