Proportion of Patients With a Regular Follow-Up/Proportion of Patients Followed-Up at Least Once a Year

Identifying Attributes

Care Settings
Dementia Care
Country
Sweden
Publishing Organisation
Swedish Dementia Registry (SveDem)
Type of Quality Indicator
Process
IOM Quality Dimension
Effectiveness
Domain
Interventions to Promote Cognition, Independence and Wellbeing

Defining Attributes

Definition

Proportion of patients with a regular follow-up.

Numerator

Number of patients with a regular follow-up.

Denominator

Number of patients reaching time for a first-year follow-up.

Exclusions
Use of Risk Adjustment
No
Risk Adjustments
Stratifications

Unit, region.

Data Attributes

Type of Data Collection
Standardised clinical data
Data Collection Methods

Data entered by participating sites into a secure online platform.

Frequency of Data Collection
Continuous
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
1
Reporting Methods

Online onhttps://register.ucr.uu.se/svedempublic, Annual Report, reports to sites.

Reporting Frequency
Annually
Reporting Frequency in Days
365
Indicator Has Recommended Targets
Yes

Source and Reference Attributes

Evidence Source

register.ucr.uu.se/svedempublic/publicreport?20 (in Swedish) Religa D, Fereshtehnejad SM, Cermakova P, Edlund AK, Garcia-Ptacek S, et al. (2015) SveDem, the Swedish Dementia Registry – A Tool for Improving the Quality of Diagnostics, Treatment and Care of Dementia Patients in Clinical Practice. PLOS ONE 10(2): e0116538. Strohmaier C and Gassner L. Quality Registries in Dementia Care: Mapping of Registries to improve Quality and Service Delivery. AIHTA Project Report No.: 150; 2022. Vienna: HTA Austria – Austrian Institute for Health Technology Assessment GmbH.

Technical Specifications
Link to Measurement Tools
Quality Indicator Confirmed to be Part of a Program Used to Monitor Quality and Safety of Care Among Older People at a Population-Level between 2012-2022
Yes
Assessed by the Australian Consortium for Aged Care Collaborators as Generally Containing Good Properties (Importance and Scientific Acceptability)
No
Australian Consortium for Aged Care Endorsed
No
Identified by PHARMA-Care Project
No
Upload Date
12 March 2025