PI 23 - Blood Pressure recorded

Proportion of regular clients with Type 2 diabetes who have had a blood pressure measurement result recorded.

Description

Proportion of regular clients who are Indigenous, have Type 2 diabetes and who have had a blood pressure measurement result recorded at the primary health care service within the previous 6 months.

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.
  • Only Type II diabetes is considered (any ICPC code of T90). Type I diabetes, secondary diabetes, gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), previous GDM, impaired fasting glucose, impaired glucose tolerance are not included. For more information, see System codes.
  • Any qualifier with a system code of BPS or BPD is considered a systolic or diastolic blood pressure measurement. For more information, see Qualifier codes.
Table 1. NKPI PI 23
Element Description
Communicare reports
  • Report > National KPI > PI23 Diabetes BP Tests
  • Report > National KPI > PI23 Diabetes BP Tests Patients
Numerator Both diastolic and systolic blood pressure must be recorded at the same time.
Denominator Regular, Indigenous patients with a diagnosis of Type II diabetes from any time.

For more information about condition codes, see Condition codes reference.

Additional data recording considerations
Note: Local clinical items should not contain more than one qualifier with the system code of BPS and one with the system code of BPD as this is not currently supported and may lead to anomalies in both PI 23 and PI24.

For more information, see Qualifier codes.