PI 05 - HbA1c recorded

Proportion of regular clients with Type II diabetes who have had an HbA1c measurement result recorded.

Description

Proportion of Indigenous regular clients who have either:
  • Type II diabetes and who have had an HbA1c measurement result recorded within the previous 6 months
  • Type II diabetes and who have had an HbA1c measurement result recorded within the previous 12 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 HBA and units of % or a system code of HBM and units of mmol/mol is considered an HbA1c measurement. These results can be received from an incoming pathology report or manually entered into an existing Clinical Item with a qualifier of HbA1c. For more information, see Qualifier codes.
Table 1. NKPI PI 05
Element Description
Communicare reports
  • Report > National KPI > PI05 Diabetes HbA1c Tests
  • Report > National KPI > PI05 Diabetes HbA1c Tests Patients
Numerator Any of the patients included who have a recorded HbA1c within 6 months or 12 months of the end of the report period. For more information about codes, see Procedure, Immunisation, Pathology & Medicare codes reference.
Denominator Regular, Indigenous patients with a diagnosis of Type II diabetes from any time. For more information about codes, see Condition codes reference.
Additional data recording considerations

Clinicians must record HbA1c results correctly. They should not enter a % result in the HbA1c qualifier or a mmol/mol result in the HbA1c (%) qualifier.

Use Report > Qualifiers > With Selected Numeric values to look for outliers such as abnormally high % values or abnormally low mmol/mol values. For more information, see Qualifier codes.

Mistakes should be corrected.

This information relates to V15.3 of the Specifications for National Key Performance Indicators and Online Services Reporting (Solving Health, Specifications for National Key Performance Indicators and Online Services Reporting V15.3. Sydney: Solving Health, October 2023). For more information, see https://www.solvinghealth.au/projects.