Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard: 7a-Proportion of patients with low back pain who received an opioid analgesic
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | 7a-Proportion of patients with low back pain who received an opioid analgesic |
METEOR identifier: | 759568 |
Registration status: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Standard 01/09/2022 |
Description: | Proportion of patients with low back pain who received an opioid analgesic |
Indicator set: |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Population group age from: | 16 years of age |
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Computation description: | Presented as a percentage. |
Computation: | (Numerator ÷ Denominator) x 100 |
Numerator: | Number of patients in the denominator who received an opioid analgesic. |
Denominator: | The number of patients with low back pain. |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Service event |
Format: | N[NN] |
Accountability attributes | |
Reporting requirements: | These indicators are for local quality improvement. Monitoring the implementation of the Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard (ACSQHC, 2022) will assist in meeting some of the requirements of the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (ACSQHC, 2021). |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Not applicable |
Accountability: | Not applicable |
Other issues caveats: | Applicable settings: Public and private hospital emergency departments. Alternatively, acute health services may choose to monitor the appropriate use of opioid analgesics using the indicators specified in the Opioid Analgesic Stewardship in Acute Pain Clinical Care Standard. The indicators can be found here Clinical care standard indicators: Opioid Analgesic Stewardship in Acute Pain - Acute care edition |
Release date: | 01/09/2022 |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care |
Reference documents: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard. Sydney: ACSQHC; 2022 |