posted on 2020-05-22, 11:52authored byJuan J. Delgado-Hurtado, Erika L. Kline, Andrew Crawford, Auden McClure
“Quality Improvement Success Stories” are
published by the American Diabetes Association in collaboration with the
American College of Physicians 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 a project designed to
improve the degree
and quality of support for lifestyle change provided to patients with type 2
diabetes and obesity in the outpatient endocrinology clinic of a rural academic
medical center.