Summary
Monitoring progress in reducing the impact of diabetes and its complications is relevant to 2 goals of the Australian National Diabetes Strategy 2016–2020 (Health 2016).
This fact sheet provides the most recent available data on hospitalisations for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) in Australia, based on data from the National Hospital Morbidity Database (see Box 1: Data sources and classifications).
Although DKA can occur in older people with type 1 diabetes and in those with type 2 diabetes, this fact sheet focuses on children (0–14 years) and young people (15–24 years) with type 1 diabetes.Monitoring progress in reducing the impact of diabetes and its complications is relevant to 2 goals of the Australian National Diabetes Strategy 2016–2020 (Health 2016).
What is diabetic ketoacidosis?
Who is at risk of DKA?
Fast facts
DKA hospitalisations
Age and sex
Recent trends
Length of stay
Conditions associated with DKA among young people
Population groups
What's missing?
Statistical table
Box 1: Data sources and classifications
End matter: References; Acknowledgments; verso details