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Linear regression models were used to adjust A1C levels in fiscal year 2000 for socioeconomic status (education level, employment, and concerns of having enough food), social support (marital status and living alone), health behaviors (smoking, alcohol use, and exercise level), physical and mental health status, BMI, and diabetes duration. Medical centers were ranked by deciles, with and without adjustment for patient characteristics, on proportions of patients achieving A1C &amp;lt;7 or &amp;lt;8%.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>RESULTS\u2014 There was substantial medical center level variation in patient characteristics of the 56,740 individuals from 105 centers, e.g., grade school education (mean 15.3% [range 2.3\u201332.7%]), being retired (38.3% [19.9\u221259.7%]) or married (65.2% [43.7\u201377.8%]), food insufficiency (13.9% [7.2\u201324.6%]), and no reported exercise (43.2% [31.1\u201353.6%]). The final model had an R2 of 7.8%. The Spearman rank coefficient comparing the thresholds adjusted only for age and sex to the full model was 0.71 for &amp;lt;7% and 0.64 for &amp;lt;8% (P &amp;lt; 0.0001). After risk adjustment, 4 of the 11 best-performing centers changed at least two deciles for the &amp;lt;7% threshold, and 2 of 11 changed two deciles for the &amp;lt;8% threshold.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>CONCLUSIONS\u2014 Adjustment for patient self-reported socioeconomic status and health impacts medical center rankings for glycemic control, suggesting the need for risk adjustment to assure valid inferences about quality.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.2337\/dc06-0771","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2007,1,26]],"date-time":"2007-01-26T20:43:19Z","timestamp":1169844199000},"page":"245-251","update-policy":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2337\/ada-journal-policies","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":23,"title":["Impact of Self-Reported Patient Characteristics Upon Assessment of Glycemic Control in the Veterans Health Administration"],"prefix":"10.2337","volume":"30","author":[{"given":"Miriam","family":"Maney","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Veterans Affairs, New Jersey Healthcare System\u2013Center for Healthcare Knowledge Management, East Orange, New Jersey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chin-Lin","family":"Tseng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Veterans Affairs, New Jersey Healthcare System\u2013Center for Healthcare Knowledge Management, East Orange, New Jersey"},{"name":"University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey\u2013New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Monika M.","family":"Safford","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Deep South Center on Effectiveness at the Birmingham VA Medical Center and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Donald R.","family":"Miller","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, and the Bedford VA Medical Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Bedford, Massachusetts"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Leonard M.","family":"Pogach","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Veterans Affairs, New Jersey Healthcare System\u2013Center for Healthcare Knowledge Management, East Orange, New Jersey"},{"name":"University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey\u2013New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1167","reference":[{"key":"2022031219053319700_R1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Thompson B, Harris J: Are we measuring what matters? 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