Impact on pregnancy outcomes when changing diagnostic criteria for gestational diabetes in Sweden

Impact of Changing Diagnostic criteria for Gestional diabetes in Sweden - a national stepped wedge randomized controlled trial

Registry ID
ISRCTN41918550
Source registry
ISRCTN
Status
No longer recruiting
Study type
INTERVENTIONAL
Sponsor
Region Örebro County
Enrollment
71500
Start date
2018-01-01
Completion date
2025-12-31
Last update
2026-08-17

Conditions

Summary

Gestational diabetes mellitus

Detailed description

The intervention is the switch from the pre-existing Swedish diagnostic criteria to the WHO 2013 criteria for GDM to the 3 point OGTT with fasting, 1 hour and/or 2 hour diagnostic thresholds of ≥5.1, ≥10.0, ≥8.5 mmol/l. This stepped wedge randomised controlled study design allows each participating center (cluster) to be their own controls before and after randomization. All eligible women from the participating centres are randomised for starting time to the new regime. Randomisation is done through a RCT module from the Pregnancy Register.

Interventions

Inclusion criteria

All pregnant women in the participating hospitals and their uptake regions.

Exclusion criteria

Preexisting diabetes mellitus.

Locations

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