Table 2.

Criterion and rating scale for potential metrics of the Global Diabetes Compact.

Criterion	Excellent	Good	Fair
Intrinsic health importance or strong evidence for prediction or benefit on major health outcomes.	Major health outcome affecting QOL (e.g., MI, LEA).	Biomarker or intervention with clear causal linkage to health outcome.	Process, intervention, or factor with potential linkage.
Modifiable with scalable interventions targeting the metric.	Clearly efficacious and scalable via evidence-based means.	Moderately efficacious and scalable.	Lacking clear scalability – or – clear health effect if scalable.
Strong global data availability with acceptable measurement properties.	Currently available for 75% of countries.	Currently available for 25 - 75% of countries.	Available for fewer than 25% of countries.
International gap and disparity	Large proportion of population affected and large international variation	Large proportion of population affected – OR - large international variation	Modest international gap or limited variation