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Figure 7 Percentage of patients with diabetes who had a low-density lipoprotein cholesterol of 130 mg/dl (left) and percentage of patients with diabetes who had a lipid profile documented in their record (right). Surprisingly, the 90th percentile in performance achieved only a 48.5% lowering of cholesterol to this level in the diabetic population. An average of only 69.1% of diabetics had a lipid profile even obtained. These data from the National Committee for Quality Assurance indicate that lipid management is markedly suboptimal in diabetics.

Reprinted with permission from the National Committee for Quality Assurance. The State of Managed Care Quality Report. 2000:24. ©2000 by NCQA (27).