Introduction & Objective: No publicly accessible and highly updated database on diabetes treatment and outcomes has been available before in Denmark. The aim is to provide data to help improve the health of people living with diabetes.
Methods: Diabetestal, developed by the Danish Diabetes Association, is a quarterly updated quality database of all people living with diabetes in Denmark. Diabetestal links individual health records from several registers that are internationally recognized for their high validity and quality, e.g. the Patient Register, The Clinical Laboratory Information Register and The Prescription Registry. Data includes lab measurements, drug purchases, accessories, diabetes-related complications, glycemic control separately for demography, diabetes duration and residence etc.
Results: Diabetestal integrates clinical practice guidelines through an open, intuitive, chart-based, customizable user experience, enabling the analysis of geographical inequalities in treatment across time, e.g. therapeutic inertia in Danmark has improved while regional inequalities in treatment persist, as depict in the graph.
Conclusion: Diabetestal may help health professionals highlight trends or problems and enable them to make informed decisions and thereby improve adherence to quality guidelines and help improve outcomes for people living with diabetes. www.diabetestal.nu
N. Cayuelas Mateu: Research Support; Novo Nordisk A/S, Bayer Inc., Boehringer-Ingelheim, Sanofi, AstraZeneca, Abbott, Abbott Diagnostics. T. Thybo: Research Support; Novo Nordisk A/S, Bayer Inc., Boehringer-Ingelheim, Sanofi, AstraZeneca, Abbott, Abbott Diagnostics.
