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CMI's unique research leads to improved care for diabetes,
asthma, and CAD patients
Ongoing measurement and evaluation are key
to CMI’s results-oriented disease management approach. CMI
conducts large-scale national outcomes studies and member
surveys to learn how to best focus investments and resources
within Kaiser Permanente to make people better and improve
their quality of life.
These national outcomes studies are conducted
for each of CMI’s clinical priority areas. Unique both for
their size (up to several hundred thousand patients per
study) and their level of detail, these outcomes reports
serve as internal Kaiser Permanente benchmarking tools.
Kaiser Permanente has demonstrated steady
improvement in the care for members with chronic disease.
For example:
Coronary Artery Disease
- Among KP members with coronary artery disease (CAD)
across the country, the percentage with known good cholesterol
control improved from 48% to 62% between 1997 and 2000
(the most recently available data).
- This means that 37,000 additional KP members are in
known good control, decreasing the likelihood of future
cardiovascular events.
Asthma
- Across the country, Kaiser Permanente has continued
to improve the use of medications to manage members with
persistent asthma.
- Utilization of inpatient and emergency services dropped
sharply from 1999 to 2000 (the last year when data is
available)
- Reduction in hospital admissions was 13% for children
and 21% for adults.
- Reduction in emergency department visits was 20% for
children and 35% for adults.
This information is excerpted from Making
the Right Thing Easier to Do, the Care Management Institute's
new information booklet. A printable Adobe Acrobat version
of the booklet is available here.
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