To identify outpatient data sources, the team should consider the following questions EXCEPT:

To identify outpatient data sources, the team should consider the following questions EXCEPT:
A . Are the physician in organized medical groups that have outpatient electronic medical records, which could be a source of data? Will their financial or billing systems be able to identify all patients with diabetes in their practices?
If not, can the health plans in the area supply the data by practice site or individual physician?
B . Some of the most important diabetes measures are based on laboratory testing. Do the physicians have their own labs? If so, do they achieve the laboratory data for12-24 month snapshot? If they do not do their own lab testing, do they use a common reference lab that would be able to supply the data?
C . Do the measures selected by team reflect the aspects of care that have the most influence on patient’s outcome
D . Do the source outpatient data is the same as inpatient data

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Answer: D