Toni Matthews

Type 2 Diabetes and Depression Toni Matthews

Having intensive lifestyle behavior change interventions that can help manage depression and delay or prevent progression from impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) to type 2 diabetes is needed (IHI, 2012). Quality improvement (QI) processes and interventions to improve patients' perception of diabetes levels in a primary care setting have been shown to be effective when using the PDSA process to design a system for integrating behavioral health to test change for continuous quality improvement (CQI), to improve quality of care processes (IHI, 2012; Yu & Beresford, 2010 ).