Evaluating the Implementation of the Diabetes Prevention Program in an Integrated Health System

In preparation for the roll out of the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) in 2018, Kaiser Permanente Northwest (KPNW), a large, integrated health care system, plans to pilot the implementation of DPP starting in April 2017. Patients 19-75 years old at high risk for diabetes will be offered DPP online or DPP in-person. A pragmatic, rigorous, quantitative and qualitative evaluation will be conducted to compare patients enrolled in DPP (either online or in-person) to those not enrolled to better inform future implementation efforts of DPP within and outside of KPNW. This study is a natural experiment project.