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Cleveland Clinic

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Community Health Checkup

The Community Health Checkup reports on more than 25,000 Northeast Ohio adults with diabetes who received care from our partner practices. We report on two standards:

OUTCOMES show how doctors' practices and their patients did on key indicators of good diabetes control.
PROCESSES show how practices and their patients did at getting recommended tests, treatments and vaccinations.

OUTCOMES STANDARD

A composite of 5 standards for good control:

Blood Sugar
Blood Pressure
Cholesterol
Weight
Smoking

Reported: Percentage of patients who met at least 4 standards

CARE PROCESSES STANDARD

A composite of 4 measures of routine care:

Blood sugar control test done
Screening for kidney function or medication
Annual eye exam
Pneumonia vaccine given

Reported: Percentage of patients who met all 4 measures

What do these numbers tell us?

As patients and consumers of health care, we're not used to thinking about the quality of health care, at least not in terms of numbers. But the numbers allow all of us to focus attention on important aspects of good diabetes control we need to work on.

The measures of routine care -- processes -- tell us about important things we should make sure our health care team does.

The outcomes standards tell us that patients and doctors must work in partnership to help people better manage aspects of their health that increase their risk for experiencing the serious consequences of diabetes.

The regional information describes important care processes and outcomes measures for more than 25,000 diabetics aged 18-75 who received care at one of our partner primary care practices within seven health systems.

Learn more about what we did and how we did it in our First (2007) Community Health Checkup Report or in our Second (2007-2008) Community Health Checkup Report.

Learn more about our partner practices.

Here is a map of our committed partner practices.