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Project of diabetes surveillance among the Cree of Eeyou Istchee : Projet de surveillance du diabète chez les Cris d'Eeyou Istchee

11 Nov 2004

To be more precise, the specific objectives were as follows: • to link the RAMQ files (registered persons, fee-for-service payments), the file of hospitalisations; • to validate the linked data and determine the strengths and weaknesses of the two available databases, comparing the cases identified by the RAMQ files and those identified by the CDIS of Eeyou Istchee; • to validate the prevalence of [...] These four files were: the RAMQ file of registered persons, the RAMQ file of fee-for-service payments, the MED-ECHO file, and the Diabetes Information System of the Cree Board of Health of Eeyou Istchee. [...] Given the particular problem of diabetes among the Cree of Eeyou Istchee, an important phase of the research was to assess the feasibility of using the QDSS for estimating the incidence and prevalence of diabetes among Aboriginals living on-reserve and of estimating the complications of this pathology during consultations conducted off-reserve. [...] Project of Diabetes Surveillance Among the Cree of Eeyou Istchee 3.3 PATIENT POPULATION The patient population was composed of the following: • for the Diabetes Information System for the Cree of Eeyou Istchee, all active diabetes cases (1,480 cases) from the information system. [...] For purposes of analysis, we consider that the cases from the Cree Diabetes Information System will be identified by the reference diagnosis for determining the distribution of the cases in the QDSS and according to the NDSS method of calculation.
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Authors

Légaré, Gilles

ISBN
2550433017
Pages
81
Published in
Canada

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