Venous thromboembolism prevention clinical care standard indicators: Proportion of patients separated from hospital on venous thromboembolism prophylaxis with a care plan documenting prescribed medicine(s), dose, and duration of treatment
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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| Indicator type: | Indicator |
| Technical name: | Venous thromboembolism prevention clinical care standard indicators: Proportion of patients separated from hospital on venous thromboembolism prophylaxis with a care plan documenting prescribed medicine(s), dose, and duration of treatment |
| METEOR identifier: | 697348 |
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| Description: | Proportion of patients separated from hospital on venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis with a care plan documenting prescribed medicine(s), dose, and duration of treatment. |
| Indicator set: | Clinical care standard indicators: venous thromboembolism (VTE) prevention Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Standard 11/10/2018 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Computation description: | For the numerator, the care plan should document all prescribed medicines, not just those specific to VTE prophylaxis. Presented as a percentage. |
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| Computation: | (Numerator ÷ Denominator) x 100 |
| Numerator: | The number of patients separated from hospital on VTE prophylaxis with a care plan documenting prescribed medicine(s), dose, and duration of treatment. |
| Denominator: | The number of patients separated from hospital on VTE prophylaxis. |
Representational attributes | |
| Representation class: | Percentage |
| Data type: | Real |
| Unit of measure: | Service event |
| Format: | N[NN] |
Accountability attributes | |
| Other issues caveats: | Applicable settings: public and private hospitals and day procedure centre. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care |