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Patient complexity in quality comparisons for glycemic control: An observational study

BACKGROUND: Patient complexity is not incorporated into quality of care comparisons for glycemic control. We developed a method to adjust hemoglobin A1c levels for patient characteristics that reflect complexity, and examined the effect of using adjusted A1c values on quality comparisons. METHODS: T...

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Autores principales: Safford, Monika M, Brimacombe, Michael, Zhang, Quanwu, Rajan, Mangala, Xie, Minge, Thompson, Wesley, Kolassa, John, Maney, Miriam, Pogach, Leonard
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2632611/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19126229
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-4-2