Using routinely collected data to determine care cascades of hypertension and type-2 diabetes management in China: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

China's National Essential Public Health Service Package (NEPHSP) aims to promote health for all at the primary health care level and includes a focus on hypertension and type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, there are limited contemporary data to quantify the care cascades of hypertension and T2DM in primary health care.

Methods

This cross-sectional study involved individual level linkage of routinely collected data from the NEPHSP, health insurance claims and hospital electronic health records, from four diverse regions in China, including Xiling District (central China), Wenchuan County (western), Acheng District and Jiao District (northern). We first compared numbers of people aged ≥35 with a recorded diagnosis of hypertension and T2DM against expected num

SUBMITTER: Xiong S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10869296 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature