Diabetes mellitus monitoring and control among adults in Australian general practice: a national retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study investigated whether the monitoring and control of clinical parameters are better among patients with newly compared with past recorded diabetes diagnosis.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

MedicineInsight, a national general practice database in Australia.

Participants

101 875 'regular' adults aged 18+ years with past recorded (2015-2016) and 9236 with newly recorded (2017) diabetes diagnosis.

Main outcome measures

Two different groups of outcomes were assessed in 2018. The first group of outcomes was the proportion of patients with clinical parameters (ie, glycated haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), blood pressure (BP), total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerid

SUBMITTER: Zheng M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10151933 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature