New Findings from MetroHealth Medical Center in the Area of Public Health Reported (A Medicaid-funded Statewide Diabetes Quality Improvement Collaborative: Ohio 2020-2022): Health and Medicine – Public Health

2024 JAN 29 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on Health and Medicine - Public Health. According to news reporting out of Cleveland, Ohio, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “We used a collective impact model to form a statewide diabetes quality improvement collaborative to improve diabetes outcomes and advance diabetes health equity.”

Financial supporters for this research include Government Resources Center, Ohio Department of Medicaid, Ohio medical schools, QI consultants.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from MetroHealth Medical Center, “Between 2020 and 2022, in collaboration with the Ohio Department of Medicaid, Medicaid Managed Care Plans, and Ohio’s seven medical schools, we recruited 20 primary care practices across the state. The percentage of patients with hemoglobin A1c greater than 9% improved from 25% to 20% over two years.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Applying our model more broadly could accelerate improvement in diabetes outcomes.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: A Medicaid-funded Statewide Diabetes Quality Improvement Collaborative: Ohio 2020-2022. American Journal of Public Health, 2023;113(12):1254-1257. American Journal of Public Health can be contacted at: Amer Public Health Assoc Inc, 800 I Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001-3710, USA.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Shari D. Bolen, MetroHealth Medical Center, Dept. of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States. Additional authors for this research include Adam T. Perzynski, Douglas Einstadter, Jordan Fiegl, Thomas E. Love, Joshua J. Joseph, Kathleen M. Dungan, Elizabeth A. Beverly, Douglas Spence, Katherine Jenkins, Allison Lorenz, Shah Jalal Uddin, Kelly McCutcheon Adams, Michael W. Konstan and Mary S. Applegate.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307410. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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