Overview

Monitoring progress in reducing the impact of diabetes and its complications is relevant to 2 goals of the Australian National Diabetes Strategy 2016–2020.

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.

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.