Data, Research and Evaluation Workgroup

Mission

The Data, Research and Evaluation Workgroup exists to provide technical assistance with data and evaluation to support the DPAC mission.

Vision

The Data, Research and Evaluation Workgroup will work to provide accurate, up to date and appropriate data to assist DPAC and other decision makers.

Workgroup Charter

Meeting Information and Updates

1st Monday of each month from 8:00-9:00am. Please contact Berhane Seyoum for conference call information. In months when a DPAC Full Membership meeting is held (twice each year), the workgroup will meet during the afternoon of that meeting rather than during the regularly scheduled time.

Minutes from February 4, 2013

Tools & Resources

• Diabetes Fact Sheet-Michigan 2010
• Prediabetes Fact Sheet-Michigan 2009
• Diabetes in the Uninsured: Michigan Fact Sheet 2008
• MDCH-Behavior Risk Factor Survey, www.michigan.gov/brfs
• National Diabetes Fact Sheet (CDC) 2011

Translation Briefs

• How to Do a Cost Analysis
• MedPage Tools Guide to Biostatistics (Courtesy of MegPage Today.com)
• Millions of U.S. Residents With Chronic Diseases Do Not Receive Adequate Treatment Because They are Uninsured, Study Finds
• Diabetes & CVD: Clinical Practice Implications of ADVANCE, ACCORD & VA Trials
• Impact of Fasting Glucose on Cardiovascular Disease
• Complications and Cost of Dysglycemia
• Role of A1c in Diagnosis
• Updated Findings of the ACCORD Study
• Sleep Disorders and Type 2 Diabetes

Workgroup Membership

Berhane Seyoum, MD, Co-chair
Paul Dake, MD, Interim Co-chair