Recording type 2 diabetes mellitus in a standardised central Saudi database: a retrospective validation study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study was conducted to assess the validity of recording (and the original diagnostic practice) of type 2 diabetes mellitus at a hospital whose records were integrated to a centralised database (the standardised common data model (CDM) of the Saudi National Pharmacoepidemiologic Database (NPED)).

Design

A retrospective single-centre validation study.

Settings

Data of the study participants were extracted from the CDM of the NPED (only records of one tertiary care hospital were integrated at the time of the study) between 1 January 2013 and 1 July 2018.

Participants

A random sample of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (≥18 years old and with a code of type 2 diabetes mellitus) matched with a control group (patients without diabetes) based on

SUBMITTER: Althunian TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10032409 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature