Diabetes care quality is highly correlated with patient panel characteristics.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Health care reimbursement is increasingly based on quality. Little is known about how clinic-level patient characteristics affect quality, particularly in community health centers (CHCs).

Methods

Using data from electronic health records for 4019 diabetic patients from 23 primary care CHCs in the OCHIN practice-based research network, we calculated correlations between a clinic's patient panel characteristics and rates of delivery of diabetes preventive services in 2007. Using regression models, we estimated the proportion of variability in clinics' preventive services rates associated with the variability in the clinics' patient panel characteristics. We also explored whether clinics' performance rates were affected by how patient panel denominators were define

SUBMITTER: Bailey SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3922763 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature