Description
Quality improvement interventions for type 2 diabetes are common, although evaluations of these interventions have been unstandardized and lacked rigor. To address this problem, the ACHORD Group led an effort to establish a standardized Quality Indicators Set for Diabetes. This minimum set of indicators is intended to be used in concert with the CDA Clinical Practice Guidelines, to aid in the evaluation and comparison of different implementation strategies and quality improvement interventions. This set of quality indicators may be useful for both translational research in diabetes as well as assessments of quality of diabetes care by health care systems. This work was published in two companion papers in the September 2005 issue of the Canadian Journal of Diabetes .
We first conducted a of the literature to identify quality of care indicators used in controlled studies of quality improvement interventions for adults with type 2 diabetes.
We then used standard consensus methods to develop a Quality Indicator Set for Diabetes for the evaluation of quality improvement efforts for adults with type 2 diabetes. Our consensus panel included leading diabetes clinicians and health services researchers in Canada .
Systematic Review – Quality Indicators
Bowker SL, Majumdar SR, Johnson JA. Systematic review of indicators and measurements used in controlled studies of quality improvement for type-2 diabetes. Canadian Journal of Diabetes 2005;29-230-238.
Systematic Review Spreadsheet Summary
Quality Indicator Set for Diabetes
Majumdar SR, Johnson JA, Bowker SL, Booth GL, Dolovich L, Ghali W, Harris SB, Hux JE, Holbrook A, Lee HN, Toth EL, Yale J-F. A Canadian consensus for the standardized evaluation of quality improvement interventions in type-2 diabetes. Canadian Journal of Diabetes 2005;29:220-229.
QISD Patient Reported Outcomes
Research Team
Jeffrey A. Johnson, Samantha L. Bowker, Sumit R. Majumdar
Consensus Panel Members
- Dolovich, Lisa, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
- Ghali, William, Center for Health and Policy Studies, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
- Harris, Stewart B., Department of Family Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
- Hux, Janet E., Institute of Clinical and Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Holbrook, Anne, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
- Johnson, Jeffrey A., School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
- Toth, Ellen L., Institute of Health Economics, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB - Yale, Jean-Francois, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- *Lee, Hui Nien, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada – *Deceased March 26, 2004
- *Majumdar, Sumit R., Institute of Health Economics, Edmonton, AB, Canada – *Deceased January 19, 2018
Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
Funding
New Emerging Team (NET) grant to the Alliance for Canadian Health Outcomes Research in Diabetes (ACHORD) which is sponsored by the Canadian Diabetes Association, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, The Kidney Foundation of Canada, the CIHR Institutes for Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes, and Circulatory and Respiratory Health.