National and subnational survey on diabetes burden and quality of care index in Iran: a systematic analysis of the global burden of disease study 1990-2019.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Diabetes care is one of the major healthcare problems . This study aimed to introduce a recently-developed Quality of Care Index (QCI) for type 2 diabetes and utilized it to compare different genders, age groups, and Iranian provinces.

Methods

From the Global Burden of Disease 1990-2019 database, we obtained primary epidemiologic measures and combined them to build four secondary indices, all indicating the quality of care provided to patients. We utilized the principal component analysis (PCA) method to calculate the substantial component named QCI (with a scale of 0-100). Gender inequality was shown by the gender disparity ratio (GDR), defining female to male QCI.

Results

National QCI ranged from 43.0 in 1990 to 38.6 in 2019. By excluding the m

SUBMITTER: Mousavi SF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9672253 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature