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Improving Diabetes Care in Communities (continued)
- What have we learned?
- Diabetes is good "tracer condition" to use in figuring our how to improve care for chronic illness at the community level
- Health care purchasers can play a stimulating and supporting role for providers. They can also directly implement improved patient/consumer information and payment policy changes
- Data play an essential role in identifying productive projects worth the effort of multiple stakeholders
- New data are needed to support new processes of care, new payment policies, and evaluation of results
- AHRQ plays an important role in improving the credibility of local initiatives, guiding work with research-based information and in developing practical tools for use by multiple stakeholders
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