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August

2022

Collaborative Updates

The T1DX-QI annual survey will be live 8/15/2022 - 9/15/2022. This survey helps us understand clinic structure, capacity and awareness of special projects and allows us to produce more publications in 2023! Each site will receive a pdf version along with the survey link to confer with their team on responses. Please only submit 1 survey per site.

Friends for Life!

Our team member Holly was able to attend the Friends for Life conference and meet up with Dr. Daniel DeSalvo and parent/patient advisor (and FFL co-founder) Jeff Hitchcock! We love seeing our collaborative members in person!

T1DX-QI Collaborative Members Website is Live!

The new QI member website is open and ready for registration! This password protected space is going to replace Trello and allows members to access content and post questions and answers. Members will be asked to register for an account and the QI team will grant access. Click on this link to make your account!

T1DX-QI Recent Publications

There have been three new manuscript publications!

Implicit Racial-Ethnic and Insurance Mediated Bias to Recommending Diabetes Technology: Insights from T1DExchange Multi-Center Pediatric and Adult Diabetes Provider Cohort

Authors: Ori Odugbesan, Ananta Addala, Grace Nelson, Rachel Hopkins, Kristina Cosse, Jessica Schmitt, Justin Indyk, Nana-Hawa Yayah Jones, Shivani Agarwal, Saketh Rompicherla, Osagie Ebekozien

View this article using this link.

A collaborative comparison of international pediatric diabetes registries. Pediatric Diabetes.

Authors: S. Lanzinger, A. Zimmermann, A. G. Ranjan, O. Gani, S. Pons Perez, K. Akesson, S. Majidi, M. Witsch, S. Hofer, S. Johnson, K. A. Pilgaard, S. J. Kummernes, H. Robinson, K. Eeg-Olofsson, O. Ebekozien, R. W. Holl, J. Svensson, T. Skrivarhaug, J. Warner, M. E. Craig, D. Maahs.

Use this link to check out this article!

Hybrid Closed Loop Systems and Glycemic Outcomes in Children and Adults with Type 1 Diabetes: Real World Evidence From U.S. Based Multi-Center Collaborative. Diabetes Care.

Authors: Nudrat Noor, Manmohan K Kamboj, Taylor Triolo, Sarit Polsky, Ryan J McDonough, Carla Demeterco-Berggren, Laura Jacobsen, Rona Sonabend, Osagie Ebekozien, Daniel J DeSalvo.

Check out this article using this link!

Portal Plot

New Data Notification - You will now receive notification of new clinic data via email and QI Portal notification bell! Log in to Settings to adjust your email preferences.

Library Resource Comments – You can now comment and tag other QI Portal users on Library resources! Guide your team members to resources relevant to your QI projects, or start a conversation on an engaging resource!

QI Portal User Feature

Name: Liz Mann

Site: University of Wisconsin/ UW Health Kids

Years with the T1DX-QI: 1 year

1.What is your favorite feature in the Portal and why?

I really like building and using the reports feature. The ability to easily splice the data by variables like insurance type or language or self-identified race/ethnicity is so helpful to visualize where disparities and opportunities exist in our system. I use this feature most often because it allows me to create dashboards for our clinic stakeholders.

2. Practically speaking, which feature (in addition to above) do you use most often and why?

(same as question 1)

3. How does the Portal support your improvement efforts?

I have just started using the reports function to support our advocacy efforts with Wisconsin Department of Health Services and the state’s Medicaid program to improve coverage and reduce barriers to CGM to all patients with type 1 diabetes. We have also shared the data with the ADA who is supporting us in our local effort to lobby our MA program.

4. What do you dream the portal could do that it doesn’t do currently?

I am very interested in our pediatric type 2 diabetes population as well, and I would love our pediatric patients with type 2 diabetes to be represented in the portal. Our local QI efforts in type 2 diabetes are not as well coordinated because of the time and energy it takes to obtain data on our metrics. I appreciate that the T1DX QI Collaborative is exploring funding opportunities to support work in this population!

Events & Reminders

Upcoming Opportunities

1.) The University of Michigan School of Nursing is recruiting healthcare providers (physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant) who regularly provide care for young adults (18-25) with type 1 diabetes. The short zoom call will determine is a video intervention is effective at increasing healthcare provider awareness of how to improve language to reduce type 1 diabetes-related stigma. Use this link to find out more information on the flyer!

2.) Albert Einstein College of Medicine is recruiting young adults to participate in their ReDUCe (Reducing diabetes distress using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) study. Please use this link to find out more information.