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

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