ArticleThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2003
Explaining variations in reported diabetes prevalence in general practice: how much variation is explained by differences between practice populations?
Article in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Inter-practice variation in diagnosing hypertension and diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional study in general practice.BMC family practice · 2009Article
- The effect of screening on the prevalence of diagnosed type 2 diabetes in primary care.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2009Article
- Ethnic inequalities in the treatment and outcome of diabetes in three English Primary Care Trusts.International journal for equity in health · 2007Article
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Abstract
There are large variations in reported diabetes prevalence within United Kingdom (UK) populations. Linear regression was used to investigate whether population characteristics could explain the variation in prevalence between 19 practices with relatively complete diagnostic recording. Population obesity and South Asian ethnicity largely explained observed variation in prevalence (adjusted R2 = 0.80). When adjusted for obesity and ethnicity, the deprivation score was no longer a predictor of diabetes prevalence. If true variation in prevalence between practices is largely predicted by population ethnicity and obesity, these population characteristics could be used to predict expected prevalence and to assess the completeness of practice registers.
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