Beyond these population-based surveillance functions, the registry was able to support patient care by ensuring that individual health-care providers and patients were made aware of elevated or rising HbA1c levels. Both the patient-support function and the surveillance function required use of a unique patient identifier, so that letters could be mailed to patients and tests from the same patient could be linked over time.
除了这些人口监测功能之外，该登记系统还能使个人健康服务提供者和病人同时了解糖化血红蛋白的升降情况，进而对病人治疗方案提供支持。但无论是病人支持还是监测功能都需要一个特殊的病人标识物，并以此向病人发送追踪信件并将来自同一病人的监测报告前后联系起来。