DATABASE
The Danish Registry of Childhood and Adolescent Diabetes (DanDiabKids) is a national clinical quality database that contains data about treatment and care for children and adolescents with diabetes. The purpose of DanDiabKids is to monitor and improve the quality of Danish treatment of children and adolescents with diabetes.
DanDiabKids is part of the shared Danish Diabetes Database (DDD) and has been collecting national data on children and adolescents with type I diabetes since 1996. DDD has the overall aim of developing, monitoring and providing an overall picture of the quality of Danish treatment of diabetes.
Children and adolecents
Diabetes
Data about clinical quality are collected with the purpose of monitoring and raising the quality of patient treatment in the Danish health-care system. These data can, as well as all other public registers, be made accessible for research projects based on systematic protocols and approved according to the relevant legislations.
Applying for access to data from a regional clinical database requires a list of demands to be obtained. A project description should be attached containing a description of the project explaining the rationale, purpose, methods, budget, publication plan etc.
Furthermore, The Danish Data Protection Agency must approve the project.
The Regional clinical quality databases subject to rules for treatment of personal data, that should secure high quality of patient treatment in Denmark. These legislations include The Act on Processing of Personal Data (Danish: Persondataloven) and The Danish Act of Health (Danish: Sundhedloven). These legislations ensure that data access is limited to relevant purposes.
