NT Aboriginal Health Key Performance Indicators

These reports can be found at Report|NT KPI. Here you will find individual reports showing data for each KPI.

The data export file is created at Report|NT KPI|AHKPI Data Export.

A summary view of the data export file is available at Report|NT KPI|AHKPI Data Export Summary.

General Notes

Because data is disaggregated by age, patients with no date of birth will not be included. For KPI 1.2 to 1.15 only patients who are 'Current' at the end of the reporting period are considered.

Before you start

Before you can effectively use the NT KPIs you need to configure parts of your database.

Configure encounter places: This is done at File|Reference Tables|Encounter Place. If you have one clinic only then you must select the Health Service Area as the Locality Group and set the appropriate DHF Health Service Code (this is a five digit code allocated by the Department of Health and Families).

If you have multiple clinics then each encounter place must be allocated a unique locality group that defines the localities covered by that encounter place. To help you edit or create these groups use the report Report|Reference Tables|Locality Group Analysis. Enter a range of post codes that covers your Health Service Area and the report will show you which localities belong to which locality group. Ideally all localities in the Health Service Area will be allocated to a single smaller locality group that will be allocated to a single encounter place. Each encounter place must also be given the appropriate DHF Health Service Code.

Review the data collection requirements: Check the help topic at Healthy for Life reports - many of the indicators are comparable to those defined for Healthy for Life. Further data collection requirements include:

Anaemic children are identified by their latest qualifier Hb (Haemoglobin) recorded during the reporting period being less than 110 g/L (less than 105 g/L if under 12 months old).
Patients with albuminuria are defined as having a latest qualifier ACR (Alb/Creat Ratio) recorded during the reporting period as being greater than 3.4.
Patients are recognised as being on an ACE inhibitor, or ARB drug by checking their regular and current medications as selected from the appopriate ATC (Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical) codes.
PAP smears are counted by looking for investigation requests for tests whose description starts with 'PAP smear' (case insensitive) or for clinical items with the export code 'PAPSMEAR'.
If you do not make Medicare claims then you will need to make sure that clinical items used to record care plans and health checks have the following system_codes: GP management plan items must use 'CPA', team care arrangements must use 'TCA', adult health checks must use 'AHC', child health checks must use 'CHC', elderly health checks must use 'OHC'.
Clients are assumed to be fully immunised if they have no overdue recalls for immunisations (excluding Panvax and Fluvax) or immunisation reviews that were due before the reference date or have an appropriate completed review. Immunisation review items should start 'Review;immunisation;' followed by the age (e.g. 'Review;Immunisation;2 months age').

Note: Reports adhere to 'NT Aboriginal Health Key Performance Indicators, Definitions, October 2013, Version 2.0.4'.