Seeing Clearly: Effects of Initiatives to Improve Diabetic Retinopathy Screening at a Pediatric Center

Autor: Carol K.L. Lam, Jennifer Harrington, Mark R. Palmert, Stephen Zborovski
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Clinical Diabetes : A Publication of the American Diabetes Association
ISSN: 1945-4953
0891-8929
DOI: 10.2337/cd18-0084
Popis: IN BRIEF “Quality Improvement Success Stories” are published by the American Diabetes Association in collaboration with the American College of Physicians, Inc. (ACP), and the National Diabetes Education Program. This series is intended to highlight best practices and strategies from programs and clinics that have successfully improved the quality of care for people with diabetes or related conditions. Each article in the series is reviewed and follows a standard format developed by the editors of Clinical Diabetes. The following article describes an initiative to improve retinopathy screening rates at the pediatric diabetes clinic of a large academic teaching hospital in Canada.
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