New collaborative tool helps case managers track diabetes patients.
For the first time, organizations representing physicians, health plans, and hospitals have collaborated in the development of a common set of evidence-based measures for evaluating performance in health care. Experts say case managers can use these new protocols to as a measuring stick for diabetes patients. The American Medical Association, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance have jointly established broadly applicable measures for the management of adult diabetes. The new tool, called the Coordinated Performance Measurement for the Management of Adult Diabetes, lays the groundwork for testing a single-source approach to measuring performance of care provided to diabetes patients in multiple settings.
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