Indigenous primary health care: PI10b-Proportion of regular clients with a smoking status result, 2015

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Indicator
Indicator type:	Indicator
Short name:	PI10b-Proportion of regular clients with a smoking status result, 2015
METEOR identifier:	589030
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 05/10/2016 Indigenous, Superseded 20/01/2017
Description:	Proportion of regular clients who are Indigenous, aged 15 years and over and whose smoking status has been recorded as one of the following: current smoker; ex-smoker or; never smoked.
Rationale:	Smoking has been identified as one of the key risk factors contributing to the burden of disease for Indigenous Australians. It is important that Indigenous primary health care services know the smoking status of clients in order to provide appropriate medical care.
Indicator set:	Indigenous primary health care key performance indicators (2015) Health, Superseded 05/10/2016 Indigenous, Superseded 20/01/2017

Collection and usage attributes

Population group age from:

15 years

Computation description:

Proportion of regular clients who are Indigenous, aged 15 years and over and whose smoking status has been recorded as one of the following:

current smoker;
ex-smoker or;
never smoked;

‘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.

Presented as a percentage.

Calculated separately for each smoking status.

Computation:

(Numerator ÷ Denominator) x 100

Numerator:

Calculation A: Number of regular clients who are Indigenous, aged 15 years and over and whose smoking status has been recorded as 'current smoker'.

Calculation B: Number of regular clients who are Indigenous, aged 15 years and over and whose smoking status has been recorded as 'ex-smoker'.

Calculation C: Number of regular clients who are Indigenous, aged 15 years and over and whose smoking status has been recorded as 'never smoked'.

Numerator data elements:

Data Element / Data Set

Person—tobacco smoking status, code N

Data Source