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INDICATOR NAME

Name

Percentage of patients with diabetes up-to-date with a Statin prescription

Alternate Name

Percentage of patients with diabetes up-to-date with a Statin prescription

INDICATOR DESCRIPTION

Description

Percentage of diabetic patients aged 65 years and older who have been prescribed a statin within the past 12 months * Please refer to the comments section for a definition of a patient with diabetes.

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 diabetes patients in your practice aged 65 years and older with a prescription for a statin 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

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