I am a big fan of Edward Tufte, and his evangelism on the use of sparklines. Below is an interpretation of how that same sparkline visualization could be applied to a family of diabetic CQMs from the Meaningful Use program, that is a modified version of Juhan Sonin's HealthCard:
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This technique does make some assumptions. It appears to look decent with two years of notional data. However, I think that changes in CQM results will probably be needed over decades. Also, I am not sure if someone like Tufte would violently object to the introduction of date under the illustration.
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