A multidisciplinary clinic providing genotyping and related services can facilitate the integration of pharmacogenomics into clinical care and meet the needs of early adopters of precision medicine.
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<p>This quality improvement (QI) project was conducted in the Department of Family Medicine at NorthShore University HealthSystem, an integrated health system in the Chicago, IL, area with 13 ambulatory family medicine primary care practices caring for ~5,000 adult patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. </p>
Quality Improvement Success Stories are published by the American Diabetes Association in collaboration with the American College of Physicians and the National Diabetes Education Program. This series is intended to highlight best practices and strategies from programs and clinics that have successfully improved the quality of care for people with diabetes or related conditions. Each article in the series is reviewed and follows a standard format developed by the editors of Clinical Diabetes. The following article describes a multicomponent quality improvement initiative in the Chicago, IL, area that used a diabetes-focused clinic visit to overcome barriers that lead to clinical inertia for type 2 diabetes.
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<p>This quality improvement (QI) project was conducted in the Department of Family Medicine at NorthShore University HealthSystem, an integrated health system in the Chicago, IL, area with 13 ambulatory family medicine primary care practices caring for ~5,000 adult patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. </p>
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