Charleston Area Medical Center Health Education and Research Institute
Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research
3200 MacCorkle Avenue, SE
CAMC Institute
Charleston,
WV
USA
25304
Email:
mary.emmett@camc.org
Biographical Sketch:
A brief on Gestational Diabetes in West Virginia was completed in collaboration with the Diabetes Prevention and Control Program in West Virginia. West Virginia was selected by Joan Ware, Chronic Disease Program, as one of five states to participate in a national project on improving data and care for women with gestational diabetes. Our first year was spent abstracting data from randomly selected charts in West Virginia, using a form constructed by the collaborative of five states. Those data were sent to Joan for profiling a status of data quality in the participating states. In West Virginia a report was disseminated to the participating hospitals. The second year of the project is focused on improving processes of care. Those results will be disseminated to others in the next year.