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Designing a Project to Evaluate a Home Care Diabetes Disease Management Program

to provide high quality and costefficient services for patients who have chronic illnesses such as diabetes. Home health agencies may implement diabetes disease management programs in an attempt to decrease the number of home visits and, therefore, reduce costs while attempting to improve the quality of care. Program evaluation is required to determine whether those outcomes are attained. The purpose of this article is to describe the process used to design and implement a program evaluation project designed to evaluate the diabetes disease management program at a large home health agency. The positive and negative aspects of using existing clinical data for research purposes are emphasized. DIABETES DISEASE