Healthcare quality improvement programme improves monitoring of people with diabetes - 24/08/11
Abstract |
Question |
Does a healthcare quality improvement programme, incorporating education and claims-based feedback about practice-specific models of monitoring diabetes care, increase the regularity with which primary care physicians assess people with diabetes mellitus receiving Medicare benefits?
Study design |
Cluster randomised controlled trial.
Main results |
22, 971 Medicare recipients with diabetes who could be linked with one of 477 study physicians in 123 non-urban counties were identified. The health care quality improvement programme significantly improved monitoring of circulating glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c) levels in people with diabetes compared with a no-intervention comparison group (see Table 1). There was no significant difference in number of eye exams or monitoring of urine protein levels between groups.
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Authors’ conclusions |
The population-based health care quality improvement programme, incorporating education and claims-based feedback about practice-specific models of monitoring diabetes care, improved care of people with diabetes.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Keywords : Diabetes mellitus, Quality of healthcare, Medicare, Randomised controlled trial
Plan
Abstracted from: McClellan WM, Millman L, Presley R et al. Improved diabetes care by primary care physicians: results of a group-randomized evaluation of the Medicare Health Care Quality Improvement Program (HCQIP). J Clin Epidemiol 2003; 56: 1210–1217. |
Vol 8 - N° 3
P. 122-124 - juin 2004 Retour au numéroBienvenue sur EM-consulte, la référence des professionnels de santé.
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