Outcomes associated with a pediatric clinical diabetes network in Ontario: a population-based time-trend analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Network of Ontario Pediatric Diabetes Programs was implemented in 2001. The objective of this study was to determine whether implementation of the network was associated with a decrease in the risk of acute diabetes-related complications and a reduction in the socioeconomic and geographic disparities in these outcomes.

Methods

We conducted a population-based time trend analysis of children (< 18 yr) with diabetes using health administrative databases in Ontario from 1996 to 2011. We determined the relation between network implementation and diabetes-related emergency department visits and hospital admissions using linear mixed-effects models with a Poisson link function.

Results

Data for 13 806 children with established diabetes were analyzed. After the

SUBMITTER: Nakhla M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5621957 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature