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Reflection (With Some Coaching) on a Quality Improvement Initiative: Finding Our Collective Voice Along the Journey

Author(s) -

Doron Schneider

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

clinical diabetes

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.931

H-Index - 37

eISSN - 1945-4953

pISSN - 0891-8929

DOI - 10.2337/cd20-0051

Subject(s) - pdca , medicine , quality management , coaching , intervention (counseling) , mental health , quality (philosophy) , nursing , medical education , psychology , operations management , psychiatry , psychotherapist , epistemology , economics , management system , philosophy

The Quality Improvement Success Story article by Roberts et al. (1) titled “Screening for Mental Health Comorbidities in a Pediatric Diabetes Clinic Setting” is a wonderful example of how the quality improvement (QI) lens can be focused on different kinds of outcomes. The clinic at Seattle Children’s Hospital elected to pursue improvement of its rate of mental health screening given the association of depression and diabetes distress with poor clinical outcomes such as A1C. Much is to be learned by their initiative and energies. I present below a top-10 list (in no particular order of importance) of my reflections on this project.

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