RA Hayward - American Journal of Managed Care, 2007 - ajmc.com Last year, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) approved 2 new
Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures for people with
diabetes mellitus (DM): to achieve a glycosylated hemoglobin (A1C) level ... Cited by 41 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 4 versions
RA Hayward - New England Journal of Medicine, 2007 - content.nejm.org In this issue of the Journal, Landon and colleagues report on a Herculean
undertaking — a study of quality-improvement interventions conducted at 44
community health centers. 1 This study showed a modest improvement in some ... Cited by 29 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
L Pogach, M Engelgau, D Aron - JAMA, 2007 - Am Med Assoc Despite increasing recognition of the effect of diabetes on the health of the US
population, there has been only modest improvement in glycemic control among
most demographic groups from the 1990s to the early 2000s regardless of ... Cited by 28 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
J Schmittdiel, S Vijan, B Fireman, JE Lafata, … - Medical care, 2007 - journals.lww.com Julie Schmittdiel, PhD,* Sandeep Vijan, MD,† Bruce Fireman, MA,* Jennifer
Elston Lafata, PhD,‡ Nina Oestreicher, PhD,* and Joe V. Selby, MD, MPH* ...
Background: Control of blood pressure, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol ... Cited by 13 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
D Helmer, U Sambamoorthi, Y Shen, CL Tseng … - Primary Care Diabetes, 2008 - Elsevier We used administrative data to define dual-system use (Veterans Health
Administration (VHA) and Medicare) in 1999 for VHA users with diabetes over 65
years old. Quality of diabetes care was determined by the last hemoglobin ... Related articles - All 6 versions
A Forms - ajmc.com The newly adopted performance measures are outcome measures, not processes, and
like most outcomes, patients' risk of having the outcome (A1C <7% or BP <130/80)
will vary dramatically depending on patient attributes (disease severity, ... Related articles - Cached
A Follow - ajmc.com The newly adopted performance measures are outcome measures, not processes, and
like most outcomes, patients' risk of having the outcome (A1C <7% or BP <130/80)
will vary dramatically depending on patient attributes (disease severity, ... Related articles - Cached - All 2 versions
AJ Rose, DR Berlowitz, SM Frayne, EM Hylek - Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient …, 2009 - ingentaconnect.com Q uality measurement efforts have grown in sophistication and impact during the
past three decades. However, some areas of clinical practice remain relatively
unaffected by quality measurement. In some cases, this is because it would ... Related articles - All 2 versions
EA Kerr - ahrq.gov This report summarizes a conference held May 24-25, 2006, in Ann Arbor, MI.
Support for the conference was provided by the Agency for Research on Healthcare
Quality (AHRQ grant R13 HS01628-01), the National Institute for Diabetes ... Related articles - View as HTML - All 9 versions