Overall Achievement by Race/Ethnicity, 2007

Figure 4 highlights the region’s overall achievement on our Summary Outcome Standard and our Summary Process Standard, stratified by race/ethnicity category. This report describes patients in three categories related to race and ethnicity. While there were a small number of patients reported in other categories, they were too varied and too few in number (449) to provide meaningful comparisons. In addition, race-related data were not reported by Kaiser Permanente. Thus Figure 4 describes 15,180 adults with diabetes across 20 practices at Cleveland Clinic and The MetroHealth System. Collectively, 9341 (62%) are white, 5144 (34%) are African-American, and 695 (5%) are Hispanic. Again, the horizontal lines represent the 38% region-wide overall achievement on the Summary Outcome Standard (at left) and the 46% region-wide overall achievement on the Summary Process Standard (at right).

Figure 4. Region-wide Achievement on Better Health’s Summary Standards, by Race Category. 2007

Overall achievement on our Summary Outcome Standard varied a modest amount across patients by race, with African-American patients faring less well (31%) than Hispanic (38%) or white (40%) patients. Similar to our results by insurance, there was little variation across race categories in achievement on our Summary Process Standard, although both African-American and Hispanic patients had somewhat higher levels of achievement than did our region’s white patients.