What and Who Does the Community Health Checkup Include?

This report covers care for more than 25,000 adult patients (ages 18-75) with diabetes who received care in our partner practices between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2008. It includes region-wide and clinical practice-level information about how Greater Cleveland’s participating primary care practices are doing in their care and outcomes. In this Checkup, we report achievement of 42 primary care group practice sites, including 33 practices that first reported their results in the June 2008 report. As a result of obtaining data from these same practices twice, this Checkup also offers us a first glimpse of change in our achievement as compared with our first Checkup which covered achievement during calendar year 2007.

As in our first report, this Checkup also describes our results for patient subgroups. Insurance status and race, where available, are collected from medical records. One organization (Kaiser Permanente) does not currently have race-related information on its patients. Household income and education are estimated from census data near the patient’s home. Subgroups and categories reported are shown in Table 1.

Table 1.  Checkup patient subgroups