Patient complexity and diabetes quality of care in rural settings.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Even though pay-for-performance programs are being rapidly implemented, little is known about how patient complexity affects practice-level performance assessment in rural settings. We sought to determine the association between patient complexity and practice-level performance in the rural United States.

Basic procedures

Using baseline data from a trial aimed at improving diabetes care, we determined factors associated with a practice's proportion of patients having controlled diabetes (hemoglobin A1c

SUBMITTER: Salanitro AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3156053 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature