Fig. 3: Difference in first diabetic diagnosis flag from clinical records comparing clinical coding and abnormal HbA1c. | British Journal of Cancer

Fig. 3: Difference in first diabetic diagnosis flag from clinical records comparing clinical coding and abnormal HbA1c.

From: Why NHS hospital co-morbidity research may be wrong: how clinical coding fails to identify the impact of diabetes mellitus on cancer survival

Fig. 3

 = patients defined by both an abnormal HbA1c and diabetic clinical coding.  = patients defined by clinical coding as post-cancer diabetics but with abnormal HbA1c pre-cancer. Left of  = abnormal HbA1c earlier than clinical coding. Right of  = clinical coding earlier than abnormal HbA1c.

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