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Abstract
Diabetes and other chronic diseases can greatly diminish the quality of life for the people who live with them leading to disability and high need for health care services. Patients with chronic disease if treated promptly and with evidence-based care can avoid many of these disabling complications prolong lives and reduce resource consumption. Chronic diseases require more proactive health care than our current health system allows. Decision support and clinical information systems are two of the six elements in the chronic care model and strategies such as guideline adherence feedback can help healthcare providers improve the quality of care that they provide to patients with chronic illnesses. This project aimed to find an acceptable method of presenting guideline adherence or profiling data to primary care providers in a chronic diabetes clinic.