Quality Improvement Success Stories are published by the American Diabetes Association in collaboration with the American College of Physicians and the National Diabetes Education Program. This series is intended to highlight best practices and strategies from programs and clinics that have successfully improved the quality of care for people with diabetes or related conditions. Each article in the series is reviewed and follows a standard format developed by the editors of . The following article describes a project at Texas Children's Hospital aimed at improving identification of patients with type 1 diabetes at high risk for diabetic ketoacidosis.

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