Abstract
In his Guest Editorial in the former issue of Primary Care Diabetes, Richard Baker considered the relationship between quality of diabetes care and its indicators [ [1] Baker R. Monitoring for improvement: quality indicators for diabetes care. Prim. Care Diabetes. 2007; 1: 3-4 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (4) Google Scholar ]. All those who are working as diabetes care providers are confronted with an increasingly firm call for transparency regarding the quality of the care they provide. From a societal point of view such a call is obvious, as we have known since about a decade that the sometimes devastating complications of diabetes can be diminished, postponed or even avoided by a better control of hyperglycaemia, blood pressure and lipids and a better foot and eye care as well. Baker questions the validity of so-called ‘quality indicators’ and he states the importance of data systems, to monitor those indicators that might be indicative for ‘quality’. This issue of the journal continues the thinking of what quality means and how it can be achieved.
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