Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • List of tables
    • Acknowledgements
    • Foreword
    • Abbreviations
    • Summary (95KB PDF)
  • Sections
    1. Introduction
      1. Background
      2. Objectives and scope of the Register
      3. Register content
      4. Main data sources
    2. Statistical result
      1. Register holdings
      2. Concordance of NDSS and APEG data
      3. Demographic analysis
      4. Type of diabetes
      5. Mortality
      6. Incidence rates
    3. Data collection issues
      1. Proportion of eligible persons providing consent to be on the Register
      2. Alternative data sources
    4. Quality control
      1. Actions to improve data quality
      2. Actions to improve case ascertainment
    5. Epidemiological research
    6. Statistical notes
      1. Calculation of age at diagnosis
      2. Derivation of diabetes type
      3. Age-standardised rates
      4. Mortality rates
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix 1: Data collected by the Register
      • Appendix 2: Telephone Survey of non-consenting NDSS registrants - September 2000
        • Introduction
        • Methodology
        • Findings
        • Conclusions
    • Glossary
    • References