Design and Implementation of an Electronic Tool to Measure Medication Adherence at the Point of Care

“Quality Improvement Success Stories” are published by the American Diabetes Association in collaboration with the American College of Physicians and the National Diabetes Education Program. This series is intended to highlight best practices and strategies from programs and clinics that have successfully improved the quality of care for people with diabetes or related conditions. Each article in the series is reviewed and follows a standard format developed by the editors of Clinical Diabetes. The following article describes a project to build a point-of-care tool for assessing patients’ adherence to their prescribed medications.

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Optimizing Glucose Meter Downloads at Parkland Diabetes Clinic

10.2337/figshare.13353551.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Isabel Wees ◽

Uma Gunasekaran ◽

Luigi Meneghini

Keyword(s):

Best Practices ◽

American Diabetes Association ◽

Diabetes Education ◽

Diabetes Clinic ◽

Standard Format ◽

Success Stories ◽

Number Of Patients ◽

Diverse Patient Population ◽

Glucose Meter

Quality Improvement Success Stories are published by the American Diabetes Association in collaboration with the American College of Physicians and the National Diabetes Education Program. This series is intended to highlight best practices and strategies from programs and clinics that have successfully improved the quality of care for people with diabetes or related conditions. Each article in the series is reviewed and follows a standard format developed by the editors of Clinical Diabetes. The following article describes a project aimed at increasing the number of patients who bring their glucose meters to their appointments for downloading at a diabetes specialty clinic with a diverse patient population in Dallas, TX.

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Optimizing Glucose Meter Downloads at Parkland Diabetes Clinic

10.2337/figshare.13353551 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Isabel Wees ◽

Uma Gunasekaran ◽

Luigi Meneghini

Keyword(s):

Best Practices ◽

American Diabetes Association ◽

Diabetes Education ◽

Diabetes Clinic ◽

Standard Format ◽

Success Stories ◽

Number Of Patients ◽

Diverse Patient Population ◽

Glucose Meter

Quality Improvement Success Stories are published by the American Diabetes Association in collaboration with the American College of Physicians and the National Diabetes Education Program. This series is intended to highlight best practices and strategies from programs and clinics that have successfully improved the quality of care for people with diabetes or related conditions. Each article in the series is reviewed and follows a standard format developed by the editors of Clinical Diabetes. The following article describes a project aimed at increasing the number of patients who bring their glucose meters to their appointments for downloading at a diabetes specialty clinic with a diverse patient population in Dallas, TX.

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Improving Dietary Recommendations for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity in an Endocrinology Clinic

10.2337/figshare.12210263 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Juan J. Delgado-Hurtado ◽

Erika L. Kline ◽

Andrew Crawford ◽

Auden McClure

Keyword(s):

Type 2 Diabetes ◽

Medical Center ◽

Diabetes Education ◽

Academic Medical Center ◽

Dietary Recommendations ◽

Standard Format ◽

Diabetes And Obesity ◽

Endocrinology Clinic

“Quality Improvement Success Stories” are published by the American Diabetes Association in collaboration with the American College of Physicians and the National Diabetes Education Program. This series is intended to highlight best practices and strategies from programs and clinics that have successfully improved the quality of care for people with diabetes or related conditions. Each article in the series is reviewed and follows a standard format developed by the editors of Clinical Diabetes. The following article describes a project designed to improve the degree and quality of support for lifestyle change provided to patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity in the outpatient endocrinology clinic of a rural academic medical center.

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Best Practices in Implementing and Sustaining Quality of Care: A Review of the Quality Improvement Literature

Research in Gerontological Nursing ◽

10.3928/19404921-20080701-07 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 209-216

Author(s):

Carol Compas ◽

Kimberly A. Hopkins ◽

Elaine Townsley

Keyword(s):

Quality Improvement ◽

Quality Of Care ◽

Best Practices

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Revised 2005 Diabetes Quality Improvement Checklist

The Diabetes Educator ◽

10.1177/0145721705280758 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 31 (5) ◽

pp. 669-678 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Judith Wylie-Rosett ◽

Jonathan N. Tobin ◽

Nichola Davis

Keyword(s):

Quality Improvement ◽

Medical Care ◽

American Diabetes Association ◽

Review Process ◽

Joint National Committee ◽

National Committee ◽

Adult Treatment Panel ◽

Control And Prevention ◽

Potential Use

The initial 1992 Diabetes Quality Assurance (DQA) Checklist was developed as a tool to facilitate chart auditing for evaluating clinician adherence to the current quality-of-care standards. This article describes how the authors revised and updated the 1992 DQA Checklist to incorporate more recent evidence related to clinical interventions that improve outcome. The revised version is designed to address the 2005 American Diabetes Association Standards for Medical Care. Additional changes were made to facilitate the review process. The revised instrument has been named the Revised 2005 Diabetes Quality Improvement (DQI) Checklist to reflect the emphasis on its potential use in quality improvement activities. The 2005 DQI Checklist is an updated version of the original 1992 DQA Checklist, with additional modifications based on the 2005 American Diabetes Association Standards of Medical Care, the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III, the Seventh Joint National Committee on the Prevention, Detection and Treatment of High Blood Pressure Guidelines, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Adult Immunizations Guidelines.

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Formation of an international quality improvement collaborative for palliative care: The Global Palliative Care Quality Alliance (GPCQA).

Journal of Clinical Oncology ◽

10.1200/jco.2014.32.31_suppl.91 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 32 (31_suppl) ◽

pp. 91-91

Author(s):

Arif Kamal ◽

Jonathan Nicolla ◽

Fred Friedman ◽

Charles S. Stinson ◽

Laura Patel ◽

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Keyword(s):

Palliative Care ◽

Quality Improvement ◽

Data Collection ◽

Best Practices ◽

Point Of Care ◽

Shared Vision ◽

Care Quality ◽

Quality Data ◽

Spiritual Assessment ◽

National Quality

91 Background: Formal mechanisms to share data on quality remain immature in specialty palliative care. As the field grows, infrastructure that promotes collaboration among academic and community-based practice will be required to foster comparisons and benchmarking of data to inform areas for quality improvement. Further, such relationships will create a palliative care “quality improvement laboratory”, where proposed guidelines and best practices can be developed, implemented, and tested. Methods: We set out to bring together specialty palliative care practices with a shared vision for collaborative quality improvement. We modeled our approach after the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Breakthrough Series alongside our Rapid Learning Quality Improvement paradigm. We use a set of common data collection procedures, across an electronic point-of-care platform called Quality Data Collection Tool (QDACT), alongside a centralized data registry. Further, we meet and discuss challenges and issues, compare best practices, and brainstorm new projects through biweekly conference calls. Results: We have created a multi-institutional collaboration for quality assessment and improvement in specialty palliative care. Termed the Global Palliative Care Quality Alliance, we have brought together 11 academic and community organizations, both general and oncology-specific, across six states to study various areas of quality practice. Short-term, we will conduct rapid-cycling quality improvement projects addressing National Quality Forum domains for quality palliative care, including documentation of spiritual assessment and timely advance care planning. Long-term, we aim to study the link between quality measure adherence and outcomes and further align our initiatives with those of other large consortia, like the Palliative Care Research Cooperative and Palliative Care Quality Network. Conclusions: Collaborative quality improvement is needed in specialty palliative care across a national platform. Developing the infrastructure to perform standardized quality improvement is achievable across multiple palliative care settings.

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Possibilities design and implementation of quality improvement of self-realization and individual cooperation in the sports and educational environment

Tambov University Review Series Humanities ◽

10.20310/1810-0201-2019-24-183-91-101 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 91-101

Author(s):

Natalya Logacheva ◽

Nikolay Kozyrev ◽

Olga Kozyreva

Keyword(s):

Quality Improvement ◽

Educational Environment ◽

Environment Design ◽

Design And Implementation ◽

Basic Concepts ◽

Definition Of ◽

The Individual ◽

Goals And Objectives ◽

Productive Solution

We identify features of the design and implementation of opportunities to improve the quality of self-realization and cooperation of the individual in the sports and educational environment. The sports and educational environment is determined by the model of realization of the productive solution of the tasks of development, self-realization and cooperation of the individual through “sports”, “education”, and “science”. We define the basic concepts and models that are connected with the functioning of the sports and educational environment, i. e. definition of the concepts of “sports educational environment”, “design and implementation of opportunities for quality improvement of self-realization and individual cooperation in the sports educational envi-ronment”, “models for quality improvement of self-realization and individual cooperation in the sports educational environment”, “functions for quality improvement of self-realization and indi-vidual cooperation in the sports and educational environment”, “principles of quality improvement of self-realization and individual cooperation in the sports and educational environment”, “technology to quality improve of self-realization and cooperation of the individual in the sports and educational environment”, “pedagogical conditions for quality improvement of self-realization and cooperation of the person in the sports and educational environment”; the models, functions, principles, goals and objectives of quality improvement of self-realization and individual cooperation in the sports and educational environment. We detail the practice of theorizing the quality improvement of self-realization and individual cooperation in the sports and educational environment. We highlight the pedagogical conditions for improvement the quality of self-realization and individual cooperation in the sports and educational environment. We prove the perspectives of studying and measuring the quality of the theorization of self-realization and individual cooperation in the sports and educational environment.

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Improvement of Statin Utilization in Veterans With Diabetes Through Pharmacy Interventions

10.2337/figshare.13403342.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Sang Wan Kim ◽

Jennifer Chen ◽

Kevin J. Wegener ◽

Nina D. Resch ◽

Kimberly M. Neff ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Care ◽

New Mexico ◽

Best Practices ◽

Medical Center ◽

Veterans Affairs ◽

Clinical Diabetes ◽

Standard Format ◽

Pharmacy Interventions

This series is intended to highlight best practices and strategies from programs and clinics that have successfully improved the quality of care for people with diabetes or related conditions. Each article in the series is reviewed and follows a standard format developed by the editors of Clinical Diabetes. The following article describes an effort aimed at increasing the use of statins among veterans with diabetes at a Veterans Affairs medical center in New Mexico.

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