Rozalina McCoy on Modernizing Diabetes Care Quality Measures

<p><a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/membership?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=insider">Join Health Affairs Insider</a>.</p><br><p>There are currently an estimated 37.3 Americans living with diabetes, more than a 40 percent increase from a decade ago. Thus, it isn't surprising that efforts to measure and improve the quality of health care focuses a significant amount of attention on diabetes.</p><p><br></p><p>Major health care quality datasets all include a number of measures related to the quality of diabetes care. Given the continuing growth in the burden of diabetes, it's appropriate to ask the question: What are we actually getting from measuring the quality of diabetes care as we do it today?</p><p><br></p><p>Rozalina McCoy from Mayo Clinic joins <em>A Health Podyssey</em> today to discuss just that very topic.</p><p><br></p><p>McCoy and coauthors published a paper in the July 2022 issue of <em>Health Affairs </em><a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2022.00233?utm_medium=podcat&amp;utm_source=a+health+podyssey&amp;utm_campaign=44743&amp;utm_content=mccoy">examining diabetes quality measures in the US since the mid-1990s</a>. They recommend some pretty significant changes in how we measure and report on the quality of diabetes care.</p><p>McCoy's research was part of a <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/diabetes?utm_medium=podcat&amp;utm_source=a+health+podyssey&amp;utm_campaign=44743&amp;utm_content=diabetes+cluster">six-paper cluster of research on type 2 diabetes</a>, all of which were published in the July 2022 issue of <em>Health Affairs</em>.</p><p><a href="https://www.pubservice.com/backissue/subbi.aspx?CO=PJ&amp;PC=HR&amp;BI=HRI&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=a+health+podyssey&amp;utm_campaign=44682&amp;utm_content=44682&amp;utm_term=mccoy">Order the July 2022 issue of <em>Health Affairs</em> for research on type 2 diabetes and more</a>.</p><p><em>Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that w