Developing a case definition for type 1 diabetes mellitus in a primary care electronic medical record database: an exploratory study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Identifying cases of disease in primary care electronic medical records (EMRs) is important for surveillance, research, quality improvement and clinical care. We aimed to develop and validate a case definition for type 1 diabetes mellitus using EMRs.

Methods

For this exploratory study, we used EMR data from the Southern Alberta Primary Care Network within the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN), for the period 2008 to 2016. For patients identified as having diabetes mellitus according to the existing CPCSSN case definition, we asked family physicians to confirm the diabetes subtype, to create the reference standard. We used 3 decision-tree classification algorithms and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator logistic regression to

SUBMITTER: Lethebe BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6504632 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature