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INDICATOR NAME
Name
Percentage of patients with diabetes up-to-date with an ACE inhibitor or ARB prescription
Alternate Name
Percentage of patients with diabetes up-to-date with an ACE inhibitor or ARB prescription
 
INDICATOR DESCRIPTION
Description
Percentage of diabetic patients aged 65 years and older who have been prescribed an angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor or angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB) within the past 12 months
HQO Reporting tool/product
Personalized/Custom Reports (includes Practice Reports)
Dimension
Effective
Type
Process
 
DEFINITION AND SOURCE INFORMATION
Unit of Measurement
Percentage
Calculation Methods
Numerator/ Denominator * 100
Numerator (short description i.e. not inclusions/exclusions)
Number of diabetic patients aged 65 years and older with a prescription for an ACE inhibitor or ARB within the past 12 months
Denominator (short description i.e. not inclusions/exclusions)
Total number of diabetes patients aged 65 years and older in your practice
Adjustment (risk, age/sex standardization)- generalized
NA
Data Source
Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), Ontario Diabetes Database (ODD), Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB), Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) Claims History Database, Registered Persons Database (RPDB)
Data provided to HQO by
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES)
 
OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION
Caveats and Limitations
- Only able to capture prescribed medication data for patients age 66 and older from ODB - ODD does not differentiate between Type I and II cases
 
TAGS
Sector
Primary Care
Type
Process
Topic
Chronic Disease
Dimension
Effective
Source
Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), Ontario Diabetes Database (ODD), Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB), Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) Claims History Database, Registered Persons Database (RPDB)
 
PUBLISH
Publish Datetime
12/04/2016 10:00:00