Conference on Assessing Quality of Care for Diabetes

描述(由申请人提供)： 在过去的5-10年里，糖尿病医疗护理过程有了很大的改善(例如，每隔一段时间检查实验室测试)，但在中间结果(例如，血压或血糖控制)方面的改善不那么显著。此外，尽管糖尿病的质量测量已经超过了其他情况，但在开发有效的质量测量方面仍然存在一些挑战。这些措施包括构建旨在改善新陈代谢、血脂和血压控制的措施，适当汇总汇总分数中的措施，评估人际护理，以及评估不同级别的概况所需的内容(例如，个人提供者与医疗计划还是医疗机构或医疗团体)。因此，密歇根糖尿病研究与培训中心(MDRTC)的测量核心、国家糖尿病质量改进联盟和退伍军人管理局糖尿病质量增强研究倡议(QUERI-DM)建议组织一次全国性的多学科糖尿病质量测量会议，会议将于2006年春季在密歇根州安娜堡举行。会议的目标是：1)聚集糖尿病和质量测量领域的科学和临床专家；2)审查糖尿病流行病学和质量测量科学的最新进展；3)计划改进技术和人际质量测量的基本研究；4)就新的技术和人际质量测量方法(或对现有测量的改进)、加权和汇总测量的方法以及在个人和团体层面上的描述考虑向全国糖尿病质量改进联盟提供建议；以及5)通过出版物、演讲和政策报告传播会议结论。这次会议将在通过全国糖尿病质量改进联盟已经建立的使命和工作关系的基础上，通过解决最近的研究和临床发现以及测量科学的问题来扩大讨论，并集中开发和测试旨在进一步改善糖尿病结果的新措施。通过将主要研究人员和利益相关者聚集在一起，讨论和规划围绕糖尿病技术和人际质量测量的问题，我们的目的是帮助制定下一个十年的测量议程，未来的研究和政策工作将在会议结束后继续进行。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over the past 5-10 years, there have been substantial improvements in the processes of diabetes medical care (e.g., checking laboratory tests at indicated intervals) but less dramatic improvements in intermediate outcomes (e.g., value of blood pressure or glycemic control). Further, although quality measurement in diabetes has advanced beyond that of other conditions, several challenges remain in developing effective quality measures. These include constructing measures designed to improve metabolic, lipid and blood pressure control, appropriately aggregating measures in summary scores, assessing interpersonal care, and evaluating what is needed for different levels of profiling (e.g., individual provider versus health plan versus facility or medical group). Therefore, the Michigan Diabetes Research & Training Center's (MDRTC) Measurement Core, the National Diabetes Quality Improvement Alliance and the VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative for Diabetes (QUERI-DM) proposes organizing a national multidisciplinary conference on diabetes quality measurement, to be held in Ann Arbor, Ml in the Spring of 2006. Conference objectives are to: 1) Bring together scientific and clinical experts in the field of diabetes and quality measurement; 2) Review the state of the art in diabetes epidemiology and quality measurement science; 3) Plan essential research for improving technical and interpersonal quality measurement; 4) Provide recommendations to the National Diabetes Quality Improvement Alliance regarding new measures of technical and interpersonal quality (or refinement of current measures), methods for weighting and aggregating measures, and considerations in profiling at individual and group levels; and 5) Disseminate conference conclusions through publications, presentations and policy reports. The conference will build upon the mission and working relationships already established through the National Diabetes Quality Improvement Alliance, expand the discussion by addressing recent research and clinical findings and issues of measurement science, and focus on developing and testing new measures designed to further improve diabetes outcomes. By bringing key investigators and stakeholders together to discuss and plan issues surrounding diabetes technical and interpersonal quality measurement, our intent is to help set the measurement agenda for the next decade, with future research and policy work continuing well beyond the conference.