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INDICATOR NAME
Name
Chronic disease cohorts-hypertension
Alternate Name
Chronic disease cohorts-hypertension
 
INDICATOR DESCRIPTION
Description
Percentage of patients with hypertension
Indicator Status
Active
HQO Reporting tool/product
Personalized/Custom Reports (includes Practice Reports)
Dimension
Equitable
Type
Outcome
 
DEFINITION AND SOURCE INFORMATION
Unit of Measurement
Percentage
Calculation Methods
Numerator/ Denominator * 100
Numerator including inclusion/exclusion
Number of patients with hypertension
Denominator including inclusion/exclusion
Total number of rostered or virtually rostered patients as of March 31st the previous year
Adjustment (risk, age/sex standardization)- detailed
This data is unadjusted. Unadjusted data reports the physician’s actual practice data. This is useful for comparing one’s own data over time.
Data Source
Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) Claims History Database
Data provided to HQO by
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES)
 
OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION
Caveats and Limitations
Does not capture patients whose date of last contact not within 7 years of index
Comments Detailed
A patient is said to have hypertension if they have 2 physician billing claims or 1 hospital discharge with a diagnosis of hypertension in a 2-year period that had the following ICD 9 codes: 401.x, 402.x, 403.x, 404.x, or 405.x or the following ICD 10 codes: I10.x, I11.x, I12.x, I13.x, or I15.x Further information on how this cohort was generated: The case-definition algorithm to identify patients with hypertension links the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) and the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP). Hypertension is said to be present if an individual had one hospital admission with a hypertension diagnosis (CIHI ICD-9 dxcodes: 401x, 402x, 403x, 404x, or 405x; CIHI ICD-10 dx10codes: I10, I11, I12, I13, or I15), or an OHIP claim with a hypertension diagnosis (OHIP dxcodes: 401, 402, 403, 404, or 405) followed within two years by either an OHIP claim or a hospital admission with a hypertension diagnosis. The administrative data case-definition algorithm has a sensitivity of 72%, specificity of 95%, positive predictive value of 87% and negative predictive value of 87%.1
 
TAGS
Sector
Primary Care
Type
Outcome
Topic
Chronic Disease
Dimension
Equitable
Source
Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) Claims History Database
 
PUBLISH
Publish Datetime
11/04/2016 16:21:00