Results of the Diabetes Surveillance 2015-2024 available for download

The indicator-based diabetes surveillance system was set up as a research project at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in the period 2015-2024. The aim was to bundle the previously only fragmented information on diabetes mellitus in Germany in a systematic way for users from health politics, research and healthcare in various formats based on nationwide, available data sources (e.g. RKI survey and examination surveys, routine and claims data from statutory health insurance and official statistics). In addition to reports and scientific publications, the website www.diabsurv.rki.de was created as a central format for disseminating results. The website displays 40 health policy-relevant indicators or indicator groups consented by experts in 4 fields of action (https://doi.org/10.1515/pubhef-2021-0081): 1) Reducing the risk of diabetes, 2) Improving the early detection and treatment of diabetes, 3) Reducing the complications of diabetes, and 4) Reducing the burden and costs of disease. A distinction is also made between life phases of of children and adolescents as well as adults. In addition to the interactive visualization of indicator results, the methodological approach and the data basis are described for each indicator and the data is provided in aggregated form. Besides the comprehensive view on the situation of diabetes in Germany, diabetes surveillance as a pilot project provides important findings and prerequisites for the current development of an overarching surveillance on noncommunicable diseases (NCD) at the RKI.

The results of diabetes surveillance at the end of the project in 2024 are now published on the RKI publication server (https://edoc.rki.de/handle/176904/12467). Individually citable documents on all indicators are available for download here. The website www.diabsurv.rki.de will prospectively no longer be updated. In the future, some central diabetes indicators will be regularly updated with new data as part of extended NCD-surveillance at http://www.gbe.rki.de.