The Swedish National Diabetes Register in clinical practice and evaluation in primary health care.

Unlabelled: Aim The purpose of this project is to describe the use of the Swedish National Diabetes Register (NDR) in clinical practice in a Swedish county and to specifically monitor the diabetes care routines at two separate primary health-care centres (PHCC) with a special focus on older patients.

Background: According to Swedish law, all health-care units have to maintain a system for quality evaluation and improvement. As the NDR holds the most important quality indicators, implementation of the NDR in primary care was carried out by an implementation project in 2002-2005.

Swedish Diabetes Register, a tool for quality development in primary health care.

Introduction In Sweden, quality indicators in health care have been the basis for developing National Quality Registers. The Swedish National Diabetes Register (NDR) - one of the largest diabetes registers globally - was introduced in primary health care (PHC) in the county of Östergötland by an implementation project, 2002-2005. Aim The aim of the present paper was to investigate, by using the results of the NDR, whether the registration led to sustained outcomes of medical results of diabetes care in PHC in the county during the period 2005-2009.

The process of implementation of the diabetes register in Primary Health Care.

Quality Problem Or Issue: According to Swedish law, all health care units must have a system for quality improvement. The aim of this study was to follow an implementation process of a uniform routine for quality control of diabetes care in Primary Health Care in one county.

Initial Assessment: Primary Health Care had a decentralized organization and patients with type 2 diabetes were served at 42 different Primary Health Care Centres.