On diabetes mellitus register

Abstract

The modern system of medical and statistical observation, which has developed in Russia, does not allow a sufficiently complete assessment of the real epidemiological situation in relation to such a disease as diabetes mellitus (DM). Meanwhile, the damage associated with the incidence of diabetes mellitus, early disability and mortality from it, as well as the cost of treatment of patients are very significant. Planning specialized care for patients, providing them with a sufficient amount of medicines, as well as training the necessary number of specialists and specially trained average staff to work with patients with diabetes requires a clear knowledge of their needs. In this regard, there is a need for a more complete and systematic account of not only the fact of disease or death, but also the presence of complications of diabetes, the need for insulin, oral hypoglycemic agents, the causes of disability and death of patients with diabetes. In world practice, the above problems are solved by creating a register of SD. In its modern view, the diabetes register is an automated information system for recording the results of continuous medical-statistical monitoring of diabetes incidence and mortality in connection with it. The system provides for monitoring of the patient from the moment of his inclusion in the register until his death. The latter involves the registration of information about the patient with diabetes in various aspects: the presence of complications, their dynamics, treatment and availability of drugs, as well as the nature of the course of diabetes, the direct causes of death of the patient. The amount of information recorded depends on the objectives pursued by the organizers of the register.