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Diabetes Type Ii Quality Improvement Using The My Own Health Report, Lynn Bennett Mcmorrow Fnp-C Jan 2017

Diabetes Type Ii Quality Improvement Using The My Own Health Report, Lynn Bennett Mcmorrow Fnp-C

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Diabetes Mellitus Type II Quality Improvement Using the My Own Health Report

Lynn Bennett McMorrow

Rationale: To maintain Primary Care Medical Home status, Cold Hollow Family Practice (CHFP) is mandated to perform continuous quality improvement for chronically ill patients. To achieve this goal at CHFP, a formal quality improvement (QI) process using a validated health risk assessment tool, My Own Health Report (MOHR) was used to engage patients with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) in dialogue regarding self change behaviors. The goal was to improve patient self-care management as evidenced by decreased HbA1c readings or weight as compared to non-participating patients, …