Scenario- You are a Nurse Practitioner working in a busy primarycare practice in a rural area. You have a number of patients thatare poorly controlled diabetics and you’re trying to determine whatpopulation level interventions may be helpful in your community.Your clinic is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) andtransferred from paper medical records to electronic medicalrecords two years ago. Some of your diabetic patients have beengoing to your clinic for over five years.

Questions:

  1. What measurements are important to consider in framing thisproblem (why there are so many poorly controlled diabetics in yourclinic)? Think about what information would be helpful to knowabout your patients, including related social determinants ofhealth.
  2. How would you evaluate these measures?
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