Indigenous primary health care: PI18a-Number of regular clients with a selected chronic disease who have had a kidney function test, 2013
Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:
Indicator
Indicator type:
Output measure
Short name:
PI18a-Number of regular clients with a selected chronic disease who have had a kidney function test, 2013
METeOR identifier:
438141
Registration status:
Health, Standard 07/12/2011 Indigenous, Endorsed 11/09/2012
Description:
Number of regular clients who are Indigenous, aged 15 years and over, are recorded as having a selected chronic disease and have had a kidney function test.
Count of regular clients who are Indigenous, aged 15 years and over who are recorded as having Type II diabetes and have had an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) recorded AND/OR an albumin/creatinine ratio (ACR) or other micro albumin test result recorded within the previous 12 months.
Count of regular clients who are Indigenous, aged 15 years and over who are recorded as having cardiovascular disease (CVD) and have had an eGFR recorded within the previous 12 months.
‘Regular client’ refers to a client of an OATSIH-funded primary health care service (that is required to report against the Indigenous primary health care key performance indicators) who has an active medical record; that is, a client who has attended the OATSIH-funded primary health care service at least 3 times in 2 years.
A client is recorded as having Type II diabetes or CVD if on the clinical record the service has recorded a condition or condition code that the system considers to be Type II diabetes or CVD.
Presented as a number.
Computation:
Numerator only.
Numerator:
Calculation A: Number of regular clients who are Indigenous, aged 15 years and over, are recorded as having Type II diabetes and have had an eGFR AND/OR an ACR or other micro albumin test result recorded within the previous 12 months.
Calculation B: Number of regular clients who are Indigenous, aged 15 years and over, are recorded as having CVD and have had an eGFR recorded within the previous 12 months.
Numerator data elements:
Disaggregation:
1. Sex: a) Male b) Female
2. Age: a) 15-24 years b) 25-34 years c) 35-44 years d) 45-54 years e) 55-64 years f) 65 years and over
3. Clients who had: a) an eGFR only b) an ACR only c) both an eGFR and an ACR
