PI 16 - Alcohol consumption recorded

Proportion of regular clients whose alcohol consumption status has been recorded.

Description

Proportion of Indigenous regular clients aged 15 years and over where their health provider has recorded:
  • Whether the client consumes alcohol
  • The amount and frequency of the client's alcohol consumption

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.
  • Patients must have had a qualifier with a system code of ALC or ALPrecorded to be included
    • Central qualifiers are Alcohol Consumption Level and Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy.
    • Example clinical items include Check up;Aboriginal & TSI adult, Check up;antenatal
    • Alternatively, in the AUDIT-C assessment (Check up;alcohol;AUDIT-C), they may have at least the first two qualifiers recorded, or an AUDIT-C score or a full AUDIT score.
Table 1. NKPI PI 16
Element Description
Communicare reports
  • Report > National KPI > PI16 Alcohol Status
  • Report > National KPI > PI16 Alcohol Status Patients
Numerator This report looks for any evidence in the previous two years of either alcohol consumption level, or an AUDIT-C score or a full AUDIT score or both question 1 and question 2 of the AUDIT C/AUDIT being recorded at the same time.
Denominator Regular, Indigenous patients.
Additional data recording considerations none

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.