Diabetes Checkup Practice Reports - 2007

In this part of the Community Health Checkup Report, we describe our partner practices, including selected characteristics of our patients with diabetes. Detailed comparative data on the achievement of our partner practices on our Summary Outcome Standard and our Summary Process Standard also are reported.

We report separately for 30 practices of the three large health care organizations that use electronic medical records (EMRs), including Cleveland Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, and The MetroHealth System and for our region’s three Federally Qualified Health Centers (Care Alliance, Neighborhood Family Practice and Northeast Ohio Health Services, Inc.).

Across the 30 EMR-based practices, overall results on our two Summary Standards are highlighted as well as results by patients categorized by insurance type (Medicare, Commercial, Medicaid, and uninsured). In contrast to our regional reports, in which we summarize all eligible patients of all practices, achievement of individual practices are reported only if they care for at least 50 patients in a given insurance category. Top achieving practices are those in approximately the top decile (top 10%) of relevant practices. For our FQHC partners, we summarize achievement at the organizational level.