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- Title
Shared medical appointments based on the chronic care model: a quality improvement project to address the challenges of patients with diabetes with high cardiovascular risk.
- Authors
Kirsh, Susan; Watts, Sharon; Pascuzzi, Kristina; O'Day, Mary Ellen; Davidson, David; Strauss, Gerald; Kern, Elizabeth O; Aron, David C
- Abstract
The epidemic proportions and management complexity of diabetes have prompted efforts to improve clinic throughput and efficiency. One method of system redesign based on the chronic care model is the Shared Medical Appointment (SMA) in which groups of patients (8-20) are seen by a multi-disciplinary team in a 1-2 h appointment. Evaluation of the impact of SMAs on quality of care has been limited. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to improve intermediate outcome measures for diabetes (A1c, SBP, LDL-cholesterol) focusing on those patients at highest cardiovascular risk.
- Publication
Quality & safety in health care, 2007, Vol 16, Issue 5, p349
- ISSN
1475-3901
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1136/qshc.2006.019158