Diabetes Care Quality Measures
The health center program launched the diabetes quality improvement (qi) initiative to help patients control their diabetes. diabetes poses a unique challenge for the hrsa health center program. one of seven patients has diabetes. and nearly one in three of those has uncontrolled diabetes. 1 patients with a hemoglobin a1c (hba1c) at 9% or above (uncontrolled) are more likely to. learn more economic cost of diabetes growth of diabetes continues to increase for people 65+ read study health quality measures lewin selected to help cms assess care delivery read article this has been a highly The work on measures was part of a broader quality improvement effort, the hypoglycemia prevention initiative, which was launched by the endocrine society and avalere health to study how hypoglycemia could be prevented in older individuals with type 2 diabetes and whether primary care physicians could incorporate diagnostic and preventive. The myqi improving diabetes care quality portal provides a fr...