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People in Connecticut Experience a Decreased Burden Due to Chronic Kidney Disease.

Connecticut Department of Public Health

Rate of hospitalizations due to chronic kidney disease.

Definition

Story Behind the Curve

Developmental objective in the Healthy CT 2020 State Health Improvement Plan.

Partners

Connecticut Department of Public Health; Connecticut Department of Social Services; State Department of Education; Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection; Office of the Healthcare Advocate; local public health agencies; health care providers including community health centers, hospitals, nurses and physicians; health professional associations; health insurers; pharmaceutical companies; other businesses and business associations; American Diabetes and Heart Associations; National Kidney Foundation; other organizations and coalitions focused on diabetes and kidney disorders; community service providers; other philanthropic and research organizations that address diabetes and kidney disorders; schools of public health, allied health, nursing, and medicine.

What Works

Strategy

Provide education, incentives and technology-based tools to providers, patients and families to facilitate self-reporting on hypertension data.

Provide education and incentives to providers, patients and families to facilitate monitoring and management of high cholesterol data.

Identify and implement data tracking methods to establish a baseline for hospitalizations; chronic kidney disease currently is identified based on clinical characteristics of the disease.

How We Impact

Measure of Efficiency and/or Effectiveness

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