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Table 6 Grouping of diagnoses and interventions used for classifying hospital activities by complication states of relevance for diabetes, and with respect to diagnostic specificity for diabetes

From: Socioeconomic inequality of diabetes patients’ health care utilization in Denmark

Diagnosis or procedure

Qualifying for complication statea

Specificity for diabetesb

Diabetes in pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium

0

1

Diabetes, without indication of chronic complication

0

1

Hypoglycaemiccoma NOS

0

0

Screening for diabetic retinopathy

0

1

Drug treatment or instruction specific for diabetes

0

1

Acute myocardial infarction

1

0

Diabetes with complication, not further specified

1

1

Diabetes with complications in peripheral vascular system

1

1

Diabetes with eye complication

1

1

Diabetes with footulcer

1

1

Diabetes with microangiopathy

1

1

Diabetes with neurological complication

1

1

Diabetes with peripheral angiopathy

1

1

Diabetes with renal complication

1

1

Diabetic cataract

1

1

Diabetic polyneuropathy

1

1

Diabetic retinopathy not otherwise specified

1

1

Diseases of the lens

1

0

Polyneuropathy

1

0

Proliferative diabetic retinopathy

1

1

Uraemia

1

0

Simplex diabetic retinopathy

1

1

Cataract, retinopathy in diabetes

1

1

Diabetic angiopathy in extremities

1

1

Diabetic nephropathy, Kimmelstiel-Wilson syndrom

1

1

Neuropathy, diabetic polyneuritis, diabetes

1

1

Amputation at or below ankle level

1

0

Coronary bypass operation

1

0

Surgery for eye complication

1

0

Teatment of ulcer of lower limb

1

0

Diabetes with gangraene

2

1

Diabetes with multiple complications

2

1

Diabetic maculopathy

2

1

Dialysis

2

0

Diseases of the retina

2

0

Heart failure

2

0

Kidney transplantation

2

0

Renalfailure

2

0

Stroke

2

0

Blindness

2

0

Diabetic gangraene

2

1

Gangrena of lower limb

2

0

Intracerebral haemorrhage

2

0

Amputation above ankle level

2

0

  1. aValue indicates classification state (0, 1 or 2, respectively)
  2. bValues 1 and 0 indicate that item is specific for diabetes and unspecific for diabetes, respectively