PI 18 - Kidney Function Testing
Proportion of Indigenous regular clients with a selected chronic disease who have a selected kidney function test result recorded.
Description
Proportion of regular clients who are Indigenous aged 18 years and over, who are recorded as having one of the following:
- Type 2 diabetes
- Cardiovascular disease (CVD)
- Type 2 diabetes and/or CVD
- An estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and an albumin/creatinine ratio (ACR) test result recorded
- Only an eGFR test result recorded
- Only an ACR test result recorded
- Neither an eGFR nor an ACR test result recorded
Notes
- User may select between AIHW's definition of Regular Client (attended the OATSIH-funded primary health care service at least 3 times in 2 years), or Communicare's Current Patient status.
- Patients must be recorded as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander or both.
- ACR results are identified as belonging to a qualifier with the system code of ACR and eGFR results are identified as belonging to a qualifier with the system code of GFE. Both laboratory and manually entered results are included. For more information, see System codes.
Element | Description |
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Communicare reports |
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Numerator | ACR and eGFR results must be within 12 months of the end of the report period. Both CVD and diabetes patients are disaggregated by whether or not they have both an eGFR,and ACR, or neither. |
Denominator | Regular, Indigenous patients aged 18 years and over at the end of
the report period with Type 2 diabetes or CVD. For more information about condition codes, see Condition codes reference. |
Disaggregation |
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Additional data recording considerations |
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