Diabetes is one of the nation's most prevalent chronic diseases, and Geisinger has created a "bundle" of best practice measures to improve the quality of diabetes care and outcomes. A multidisciplinary group including endocrinologists, family physicians, internists, nurse practitioners, diabetic nurse educators and operations managers developed a set of nine quality measures that are used to evaluate each patient. These standards include tracking blood pressure, cholesterol levels and immunizations...

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