Diabetes INSIDE

The goal of Diabetes INSIDE is to catalyze, accelerate, and sustain health care improvement across health care systems, public health departments, and payers, as well as a range of stakeholders and organizations committed to improving diabetes outcomes. 

Quality Improvement (QI) Program Materials

The ADA provides Practice Facilitators with tools to facilitate the dissemination of QI principles, as well as the introduction of managed care processes that have been found to improve outcomes for those with diabetes.

For Clinical Health Workers (CHWs), the ADA has developed instructional modules to introduce the concepts of QI to CHWs. This information will provide CHW’s the skill set to become integral parts of a primary care office and in doing so improve the care that individuals with diabetes receive.

What is Quality Improvement? 

Change is often met with resistance, yet it is embraced in pursuit of potential enhancements. In primary care, changes hold promises for refining the support offered to individuals struggling with diabetes management—fostering better outcomes. However, the assurance of progress is not a formality. Rather, it hinges upon the strategies employed in its attempt. Quality improvement (QI) is the framework used to systematically make those changes.

While the ADA continues to partner with individual primary care practices to implement guidelines and improve care, it is in the process of scaling QI activities that we will engage practice facilitators (PFs) and practice-based research networks.  

Interventions and Achievements 

Diabetes INSIDE interventions have included:

• Quality improvement methodology training for health care personnel
• Multidisciplinary health care team coaching and provider professional development
• Recognition and dissemination strategies

Diabetes INSIDE has successfully collaborated with 16 different health care systems, positively impacting over 500,000 individuals with diabetes. While this targeted approach has yielded significant success, the ADA recognizes the potential to extend its reach even further.