Acute stroke clinical care standard indicators: 2a-Proportion of patients with a final diagnosis of ischaemic stroke who were provided thrombolysis, 2019-
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | Indicator 2a-Proportion of patients with a final diagnosis of ischaemic stroke who were provided thrombolysis. |
METEOR identifier: | 719048 |
Registration status: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Qualified 09/09/2019 |
Description: | Proportion of patients with a final diagnosis of ischaemic stroke who were provided thrombolysis. |
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Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | Both the numerator and the denominator include patients with a final diagnosis of ischaemic stroke. Presented as a percentage. |
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Computation: | (Numerator ÷ denominator) x 100 |
Numerator: | Number of patients with a final diagnosis of ischaemic stroke who were thrombolysed. |
Denominator: | Number of patients with a final diagnosis of ischaemic stroke. |
Comments: | Thrombolysis may involve surgical catheterisation, injection of the thrombolytic agent through an intravenous (IV) line, or other techniques. Therefore, it may involve different procedure codes (see Episode of admitted patient care—procedure, code (ACHI 11th edn) NNNNN-NN), some of which may not be systematically coded. Therefore, it may not be comprehensively captured in administrative datasets, and instead, the patient's medical record should be reviewed to identify if and when thrombolysis has been given. This indicator also applies to patients who are tele-thrombolysed (i.e. where telehealth technology is used to assess patients suitable for thrombolysis, and where thrombolysis is administered under the guidance of an appropriate specialist). |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Service event |
Format: | N[NN] |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care |
Reference documents: | NSF (National Stroke Foundation) 2017. Clinical guidelines for stroke management. Melbourne: NSF |