Pioneering Quality Improvement for Type 2 Diabetes

Less time. More impact. Making QI accessible.

What is QUEST?

QUEST: Quality Uncovered through Evaluation of practice and Solutions to Transform outcomes

QUEST is a streamlined QI program designed for nurse practitioners: simple steps, a minimal time commitment, and clear guidance from start to finish. The goal of this initiative is to assess how current practices are aligned with the Diabetes Canada Pharmacotherapy and Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Guidelines. QUEST aims to:

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Empower nurse practitioners to evaluate and refine their approach to type 2 diabetes care.

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Deliver a flexible, evidence-based quality improvement framework for primary care that adapts seamlessly across multiple disease states. 

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Develop a learning platform that leverages QUEST’s insights, fueling ongoing professional growth and driving better care for patients.

What Will Be Assessed

Through our data analysis collaborator, Amplify Care, QUEST will extract a specific data set from your EMR. This data will be analyzed, and a report will be generated to identify both successes and areas for improvement in diabetes care.

The analysis will focus on key variables aligned with the Diabetes Canada Clinical Practice Guidelines, helping to inform and guide quality improvement efforts.  

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Data analyzed will be limited to:

Total patients in practice

Percentage of patients with:

T2D

T2D+eCVD

T2D+eCVD without SGLT2 or GLP1

T2D+CKD

T2D+CKD without SGLT2 or GLP1

T2D without eGFR and uACR in the past year

What Should You Know About Participating? 

Minimal Time Commitment

Total estimated time commitment: Less than 6 hours

This includes: Needs assessment questionnaires (pre and post program), contract review and data extraction coordination, report review, QI plan reflection, virtual learning session.

Shaping Future Learning Through Quality Assessment

QUEST is both a QA initiative and is also the foundation for building a Quallity Assessment learning program. As such, QUEST participants will be compensated for completing two needs assessment documents (one pre-program and one post-program).

Enhance Clinical Practice with QUEST

Receive two data sets from your own practice to review and create your QI plan. Aligned with the latest Diabetes Canada guidelines for CKD and Pharmacotherapy, QUEST helps you sharpen clinical decision-making and strengthen your practice through real-world insights and guided learning.

Need to know more?

QUEST Project Timeline

A timeline infographic illustrating five sequential steps for project management or process workflow, beginning in August and scheduled into December. The steps include Recruitment & Onboarding, Data Extraction & EMR Analysis, Distribution of Individual Reports with Insights & Aggregate Data, Individual QI Implementation Plans, and Virtual Group Sharing Session.

A second data extraction will take place in early 2026 to compare participant outcomes before and after the QI plan implementation.

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Powered by Experts in Primary Care, Data, and Education 

QUEST is a collaboration between organizations committed to streamlining traditional QI processes to remove barriers to participation. 

ICI Medical – Program design, management, and implementation.

Amplify Care – Data Collection and Analysis

LMC Healthcare - Medical education on QI in specialty care

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QUEST is made possible through support by Boehringer Ingelheim Canada.

QUEST is Flexible - Just Like Your Path to Joining