People With Identified Gout Dispensed Any of Colchicine, Prednisone or Funded NSAIDs but Not Urate-Lowering Therapy in a Year, by DHB (Percent)
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
People with identified gout dispensed any of colchicine, prednisone or funded NSAIDs but not urate-lowering therapy in a year, at community pharmacies.
Numerator
People with identified gout, aged 20 years and over dispensed any of colchicine, prednisone or funded NSAIDs in a year but not dispensed gout-specific urate-lowering therapy (allopurinol, febuxostat, benzbromarone) in the same year.
Denominator
Those aged 20 years and over with identified gout using the HealthTracker method.
Exclusions
People not enrolled with a PHO in each year.
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
Stratifications
By year (2012-2019), age group (20-44, 45-64, 65+) and ethnicity (Māori, Pacific peoples, non-Māori, non-Pacific).
Collection and Reporting Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Ministry of Health: National Minimum Dataset, Pharmaceutical Collection, PHO enrolments, Laboratory Claims Mortality Collection, New Zealand Cancer Registry.
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Atlas of Healthcare Variation website