An epidemiological data with four distinct types of sources, which contains: diabetic clinic and/or family physician visits (1754 cases);
hospital discharges (452 cases); prescriptions (1135 cases), and purchases of regent strips and insulin syringes (173 cases).
A total of 2069 cases were identified.
References
Bruno G, LaPorte R, Merletti F, Biggeri A, McCarty D, Pagano G. 1994. National diabetes programs.
Application of capture-recapture to count diabetes? Diabetes Care 17(6): 548.