Organizational Factors Affecting the Adoption of Diabetes Care Management Processes in Physician Organizations
- Rui Li, MM1,
- Jodi Simon, MA1,
- Thomas Bodenheimer, MD, MPH2,
- Robin R. Gillies, PHD1,
- Lawrence Casalino, MD, PHD3,
- Julie Schmittdiel, PHD1 and
- Stephen M. Shortell, PHD, MPH1
- 1School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
- 2Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
- 3Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- Address correspondence and reprint requests to Rui Li, 140 Warren #7360, Berkeley, CA, 94720-7360. E-mail: rli{at}uclink.berkeley.edu
Abstract
OBJECTIVE—To describe the extent of adoption of diabetes care management processes in physician organizations in the U.S. and to investigate the organizational factors that affect the adoption of diabetes care management processes.
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—Data are derived from the National Survey of Physician Organizations and the Management of Chronic Illness, conducted in 2000–2001. A total of 1,104 of the 1,590 physician organizations identified responded to the survey. The extent of adoption of four diabetes care management processes is measured by an index consisting of the organization’s use of diabetic patient registries, clinical practice guidelines, case management, and physician feedback. The ordinary least-squares model is used to determine the association of organizational characteristics with the adoption of diabetes care management processes in physician organizations. A logistic regression model is used to determine the association of organizational characteristics with the adoption of individual diabetes care management processes.
RESULTS—Of the 987 physician organizations studied that treat patients with diabetes, 48% either do not use any or use only one of the four diabetes care management processes. A total of 20% use two care management processes, and 32% use three or four processes. External incentives to improve quality, computerized clinical information systems, and ownership by hospitals or health maintenance organizations are strongly associated with the diabetes care management index and the adoption of individual diabetes care management processes.
CONCLUSIONS—Policies to encourage external incentives to improve quality and to facilitate the adoption of computerized clinical information technology may promote greater use of diabetes care management processes.
- CMP, care management process
- HEDIS, Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set
- HMO, health maintenance organization
- IOM, Institute of Medicine
- IPA, independent practice association
- IT, information technology
- NSPO, National Study of Physician Organizations and the Management of Chronic Illness
Footnotes
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A table elsewhere in this issue shows conventional and Système International (SI) units and conversion factors for many substances.
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- Accepted June 25, 2004.
- Received February 12, 2004.
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