Measuring primary care organizational capacity for diabetes care coordination: the Diabetes Care Coordination Readiness Assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Not all primary care clinics are prepared to implement care coordination services for chronic conditions, such as diabetes. Understanding true capacity to coordinate care is an important first-step toward establishing effective and efficient care coordination. Yet, we could identify no diabetes-specific instruments to systematically assess readiness and/or status of primary care clinics to engage in diabetes care coordination.

Objective

This report describes the development and initial validation of the Diabetes Care Coordination Readiness Assessment (DCCRA), which is intended to measure primary care clinic readiness to coordinate care for adult patients with diabetes.

Design

The instrument was developed through iterative item generation within a framework

SUBMITTER: Weeks DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3889951 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature