... preventionresponsibilities to non-physician staff. Accordingly, the planned change for the eye care project was to shift the coordination of diabetes eye care from primary care to the eye clinic, and to provide the eye ... expertise and resources in an ongoing system-wide effort to improve the performance of the VA healthcare system and, thus, quality of care for veterans. QUERI researchers collaborate with VA policy and ... the collection of important data to further characterize the risk status of veterans with diabetes who receive eye care services in the VA, and to better examine the extent to which there may be problems with...