Estimates of drug treated diabetes incidence and prevalence using Australian administrative pharmaceutical data.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The incidence and prevalence of diabetes within a population are important public health metrics. Pharmaceutical administrative data may offer a resource that can contribute to quantifying these measures using the recorded signals derived from the drugs used to treat people with diabetes.

Objective

To estimate the longitudinal incidence and prevalence of drug treated (DT) diabetes in Australia utilising an Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) dataset and compare estimates with community survey data for all diabetes reported in the Australian National Health Survey (NHS).

Methods

Persons with DT diabetes were identified within the PBS dataset using assigned Anatomic Therapeutic Chemical codes for 'Drugs used in diabetes'. Prevalent persons with

SUBMITTER: Purkiss S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8121372 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature