Indigenous Better Cardiac Care measure: 4.2-Chronic disease management, 2016
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Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | 4.2-Indigenous chronic disease management, 2016 |
METEOR identifier: | 657056 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 17/08/2017 |
Description: | Number and proportion of patients with a cardiac condition who received the following Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) chronic disease management item(s), by Indigenous status:
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Rationale: | This measure falls within Priority area 4 of the Better Cardiac Care project—optimisation of health status and provision of ongoing preventive care. It is based on the premise that all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with cardiac conditions should receive ongoing multidisciplinary primary health care and specialist physician follow-up as required, to prevent further illness and optimise health status. Secondary prevention, which encompasses a broad range of multidisciplinary interventions and management (such as TCAs and GPMPs), helps reduce the recurrence of cardiac events or complications of disease in patients with an established diagnosis of cardiac disease. These interventions have been shown to reduce hospital readmission and mortality rates (NHFA 2010).
Full reporting against this indicator is not possible using available data. In particular, data are not available specifically for patients discharged from hospital within a specified period. |
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