Workshop Summary, Toward a Comprehensive Diabetes Measure Set: Value-Based Episodes of Care 

Although significant gains have been made in the treatment of diabetes, many individuals do not receive the evidence-based interventions known to be effective in the management of their disease and avoidance of diabetes-related complications, such as blindness or kidney failure. Building on the work of public and private driven initiatives, NQF is working to identify a comprehensive diabetes measure set by applying the recently endorsed NQF framework for assessing “episode efficiency” for chronic conditions to the diabetes community. Given the longitudinal nature of diabetes, with its complexity and diversity of care providers and care settings, and the vital role of patient self-management, diabetes emerges as an excellent condition for exploring the potential of moving towards this episodic assessment of what constitutes optimal care and how this can be achieved in the most efficient manner.