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Session: Quality Improvement Issues in Diabetes and Obesity
3225.0: Monday, November 06, 2006: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Oral
Quality Improvement Issues in Diabetes and Obesity
Learning Objectives: 1. Distinguish between clinical preventive services and self-management practices in diabetes care; 2. Describe the pay-for-performance payment incentive program designed to improve quality of care; 3. Recognize that only moderately high percentage of patients with diabetes and advanced chronic kidney disease receive ACE/ARB prescription and older age is associated with a lower prescription rate; 4. Recognize risk factors associated with bariatric surgery; 5. Describe quantitative and qualitative data from the first year of the New York City Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene’s innovative Preventive Services Advisor (PSA) program, an initiative to assist primary care practices in New York City move toward quality improvement in diabetes care.
Presider(s):Tyrone Borders, PhD
12:30 PMMeasuring comprehensive diabetes care using bundled measures of clinical preventive services and self-management practices  [ Recorded presentation ]
Alan D. Krinsky, PhD, Deborah N. Pearlman, PhD, Joann Lindenmayer, DVM, MPH, Christen O'Haire, BA, PhD Candidate
12:45 PMImproving the quality of diabetes management with Pay for Performance incentive program
Irena Pesis-Katz, ABD, Peter Veazie, PhD, Kathleen Curtin, NP, MBA, Norman Lindenmuth, MD, Howard Beckman, MD, FACP
1:00 PMImpact of a quality improvement initiative to reduce post-operative complications following bariatric surgery  [ Recorded presentation ]
Yosef Dlugacz, PhD, Lori Stier, EdD, Dominick Gadaleta, MD, Alan Geiss, MD, Lawrence Gellman, MD, Mara Warren, MBA, Karen Miller, MPH, Charmaine Gentles Gentles, ANP, Melanie Howard, RPA-C
1:15 PMMaine Youth Overweight Collaborative  [ Recorded presentation ]
Michele Polacsek, PhD, MHS, Joan Orr, CHES, Lisa Letourneau, MD, MPH, Steve Gortmaker, PhD, Victoria Rogers, MD
1:30 PMInnovative approaches to improving diabetes care in the ambulatory care setting: Preventive Services Advisors (PSAs) in New York City  [ Recorded presentation ]
Joslyn Levy, BSN, MPH, Rachel Sacks, MPH, Jeff Harris, Ellen Cohen, PhD, Chao Wu, MBA, Lynn D. Silver, MD, MPH, Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Medical Care
Endorsed by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Socialist Caucus; Vietnam Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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