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Clinics: Vascular Disease |
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Percentage of patients with vascular disease receiving optimal care
(meeting all four goals)
Timeframe
HealthEast data in the graph above shows care delivered from January 2009 through December 2009. The Minnesota average comes from the most current publicly reported data through MN Community Measurement and reflects care delivered in 2009.
What the graph is saying
For this measure, higher percentages are better. The graph above shows that overall, HealthEast Clinics are performing better than the Minnesota average.
You can compare performance of clinics across the state with the 2010 Health Care Quality Report, on the MN Community Measurement web site.
Individual clinic scores
HealthEast data in the table below shows care delivered from February 2010 through February 2011.
* The number of cases is too small (<25) to reliably predict clinic performance.
About this measure
The best care for vascular disease includes meeting 4 goals. This measure show the percentage of vascular disease patients, ages 18-75, who met all 4 goals:
1. Maintain blood pressure less than 130/80
2. Lower LDL or "bad" cholesterol to less than 100 mg/dl
3. Don't smoke
4. Take an aspirin daily
Vascular disease is any condition that affects the blood vessels and limits their ability to supply blood, oxygen and nutrients to the body from the heart. Achieving these four treatment goals will help to stop the build-up of fatty substances along the blood vessel wall that make it harder for the heart to pump blood.
Description above from Minnesota HealthScores.
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