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New Study Finds Significant Inconsistency With How Diabetes Quality of Care is Measured

Published in Blood Weekly, November 12th, 2009

The National Changing Diabetes=AE Program (NCDP) announced results of a study that found extraordinary variety in the measurement of clinical processes critical to optimal diabetes management such as blood pressure and glucose levels.

In the study, Quality Measurement in Diabetes Care, published in Population Health Management, researchers at Thomas Jefferson University's Jefferson School of Population Health, Philadelphia, reported 146 distinct measures for 31 medical outcomes - a quilt of measurements that healthcare providers say is complex, disjointed and cumbersome. In the study, the authors note that "although the broad array of existing measures creates valuable...

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