Background This study assessed the validity of the Resident Assessment Instrument
Minimum Data Set (RAI-MDS) Version 2.0 for diagnoses of diabetes and comorbid …

Background Undiagnosed diabetes can create significant management issues for seniors.
Objectives To evaluate the effectiveness of two diabetes risk surveys—the Canadian …

METHODS We conducted a population-based longitudinal descriptive study of nursing
home residents in Ontario, Canada, using linked Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences …

Objectives The objectives of this study were to describe the prevalence of diabetes mellitus
(DM) in European nursing homes (NHs), and the health and functional characteristics of …

Aims To assess the diagnostic accuracy of the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score (FINDRISC) for
undiagnosed T2DM and to compare its performance with the Latin-American FINDRISC (LA …

Objectives This study assessed the validity of a widely-accepted administrative data
surveillance methodology for identifying individuals with diabetes relative to three laboratory …

As FPs we know which chronic diseases affect our individual patients, but it is much more
challenging to produce a registry of patients with a given condition for an entire practice …

Background Linking process of care data from general practice (GP) and hospital data may
provide more information about the risk of hospital admission and re-admission for people …

Background Diabetes health services research often utilizes secondary data sources,
including survey self-report and Medicare claims, to identify and study the diabetic …

Background Prevention of diabetes and coronary heart disease (CHD) is possible but
identification of at-risk patients for targeting interventions is a challenge in primary care …