Letters
Blood glucose in type 2 diabetes
New QOF glycaemia targets are achievable and evidence based
BMJ 2009; 338 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b1915 (Published 12 May 2009) Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b1915
- Simon Griffin, assistant director1,
- Jonathan Graffy, senior clinical research associate2
- 1MRC Epidemiology Unit, Box 285, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0QQ
- 2General Practice and Primary Care Research Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
- simon.griffin{at}mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Lehman and Krumholz suggest that the revised targets for glycated haemoglobin in the quality and outcomes framework (QOF) pose a risk to people with diabetes, many of whom will need insulin if 50% are to achieve values of 7.0% or less.1 Fortunately, glycaemic control is rather better than they realise: in …
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