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Usha Kollipara1, Mario Rivera-Bernuy2, Joseph Putra1
1Southwestern Health Resources, Dallas, TX.
Abstract:
This article describes a quality improvement project to reduce the number of patients with diabetes who have poor glycemic control in a large tertiary care endocrinology clinic. The project used the Lean Six Sigma Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control process improvement methodology to develop clinic workflow processes for obtaining A1C measurements in a timely manner to facilitate interventions to improve glycemic control. The percentage of patients with poorly controlled diabetes (A1C >9.0% or missing value in the past 12 months) significantly improved from 26.4% at baseline to 16% (P <0.001), and the proportion of patients with an A1C test within 3-6 months of an appointment improved from 76 to 92%.
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