Towards a national primary health care data collection – dementia demonstration project

Data items requested from Primary Health Networks for this project

Metadata

• Data extraction tool.
• Data extraction and submission date.
• Number of general practices (including accredited) in the Primary Health Network (PHN) contributing to the data extract.
• Number of contributing practices by clinical information systems (CIS) used (Medical Director, Best Practice or other).

Count/disaggregation

• Statistical Area Level 3 (SA3) code.
• Measure 1: Count of active patients.
• Measure 2A: Count of active patients aged 30 years and over with dementia listed as a diagnosis.
• Measure 2B: Count of active patients aged less than 30 years with dementia listed as a diagnosis.
• Measure 3: Count of active patients aged 30 years and over with dementia listed as a diagnosis by dementia type.
• Measure 4: Count of active patients aged 30 years and over with dementia listed as a diagnosis by country of birth.
• Measure 5: Count of active patients aged 30 years and over with dementia listed as a diagnosis by ethnicity.
• Measure 6: Count of active patients aged 30 years and over with dementia listed as a diagnosis by Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) entitlement status.
• Measure 7: Count of active patients aged 30 years and over with dementia listed as a diagnosis by residential aged care facility (RACF) status.
• Measure 8: Count of active patients aged 30 years and over with dementia listed as a diagnosis by marital status.
• Measure 9: Count of active patients aged 30 years and over with dementia listed as a diagnosis by alcohol consumption status.
• Measure 10: Count of active patients aged 30 years and over with dementia listed as a diagnosis by smoking status.
• Measure 11: Count of active patients aged 30 years and over with dementia listed as a diagnosis by carer status.
• Measure 12: Count of active patients aged 30 years and over with mild cognitive impairment listed as a current diagnosis.
• Measure 13: Count of active patients aged 30 years and over with dementia listed as a diagnosis with coronary heart disease (CHD) also listed as a current or past diagnosis.
• Measure 14: Count of active patients aged 30 years and over with dementia listed as a diagnosis with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) also listed as a current or past diagnosis.
• Measure 15: Count of active patients aged 30 years and over with dementia listed as a diagnosis with diabetes also listed as a current or past diagnosis.
• Measure 16: Count of active patients aged 30 years and over with dementia listed as a diagnosis with depression also listed as a current or past diagnosis.
• Measure 17: Count of active patients aged 30 years and over with dementia listed as a diagnosis with anxiety also listed as a current or past diagnosis.
• Measure 18: Count of active patients aged 30 years and over with dementia listed as a diagnosis with stroke also listed as a current or past diagnosis.