Quality Standards for Diabetes Care Toolkit

Gestational diabetes mellitus

Structure

A suitable programme to detect and treat gestational diabetes is offered to all women in pregnancy.

Process

The proportion of pregnant women who are offered a screening test for gestational diabetes at the appropriate time/s.

Numerator	The number of pregnant women in the denominator offered screening at the appropriate time/s
Denominator	The number of pregnant women without known pre-gestational diabetes

The proportion of women with gestational diabetes diagnosed in their pregnancy offered a screening test after the birth of their child.

Numerator	The number of women with gestational diabetes in the denominator offered postnatal screening
Denominator	The number of women with gestational diabetes