Improving Diabetic Kidney Disease Screening in Veterans Affairs Primary Care Clinics.

Quality Improvement Success Stories are published by the American Diabetes Association in collaboration with the American College of Physicians and the National Diabetes Education Program. This series is intended to highlight best practices and strategies from programs and clinics that have successfully improved the quality of care for people with diabetes or related conditions. Each article in the series is reviewed and follows a standard format developed by the editors of Clinical Diabetes. The following article describes a quality improvement project to improve screening rates for diabetic kidney disease at a Veterans Affairs health system in Northeast Ohio.