Report from the National Diabetes Surveillance System: Diabetes in Canada, 2008

NDSS Future Plans

The NDSS provides a valuable source of information about diabetes in Canada. Future work will include:

• Continuing work with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit organizations to produce NDSS data for analysis, interpretation, and up-to-date reporting, to gain a better understanding of diabetes among these populations;
• Expanding the breadth of data reporting on diabetes and other related conditions among adults, children, and adolescents;
• Exploring the use of ICD-10-CA diagnosis coding in hospitals and pharmaceutical data to differentiate between types of diabetes, and,
• Developing a collaborative standard approach to improving and documenting data quality.