Oregon collaboration standardizes ambulatory diabetes care.
When Oregon state officials recognized that differences among health plans' guidelines for treating diabetes resulted in less-than-adequate care, they brought the groups together to resolve the differences. Procedures were set up and adopted by the state's major health plans.
D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000592:standards; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy*; D019468:Disease Management; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008487:Medical History Taking; D009922:Oregon; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011635:Public Health Administration