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Puja Singh1,2, Christy Byer-Mendoza2, Kim McNamara2
1University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA.
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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 an initiative to improve the rate of lipid profile screening in youth with type 2 diabetes at a tertiary children's hospital in Southern California.
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