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Overview

The CDSA Tool has been developed to report on the completeness of patient demographic and health summary data within the general practice clinical system. It provides the following reports:

  • 'Data Quality Dashboard Report' to indicate the overall status of data quality based on the data indicators.
  • 'Data Completeness Report' to report the % of completeness for each data indicator.
  • 'Data Completeness Patient Graph' to provide a graphical view of the data indicators and allow re-identification of patients where data is missing.
  • 'Duplicate Patients Report' to list patient records within the clinical system where duplication is suspected.



The CDSA Tool is available in CAT Version 3 for clinical systems where the CAT data extract meets to CAT data specifications version 1_12 or higher. It can be accessed from the CAT4 view under the 'Data Quality' tab. Under that tab are four different tabs which are described in more detail below.

Warning

Please note that the percentages shown on the Data Quality Dashboard are an in some cases an average value of the individual indicators. The Allergies and adverse reaction dashboard is a combination of Allergy Status recorded, Coded Allergy recorded and Reaction Completed.

Generally speaking the Data Completeness Report will give much more detail than the dashboard and is the recommended report to understand the data quality dashboard.


 

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Data
Indicators

The data indicators are based on the data content outlined in the RACGP data recommendations http://www.racgp.org.au/ehealth/summary
and are grouped into sections as follows:

  1. Allergies and Adverse Reactions
  2. Medicines
  3. Medical History
  4. Health Risk Factors
  5. Immunisations
  6. Relevant Family History
  7. Relevant Social History


Detailed data indicator information is provided in Appendix A at the end of this guide.
Some indicators may not be available for some clinical systems. These are provided in Appendix B at the end of this guide.

Data Quality Dashboard

 

Data Quality
> Dashboard
Report

The Data Quality Dashboard provides a report indicating the overall status of data quality based on the data indicators. It displays each data content section with a 'Traffic Light' status icon
calculated from the % completeness of each data indicator within the section. Each indicator contributes equal weight to the overall status Indicators that are not available for a clinical system do not contribute to the overall status.

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The 'Traffic Light' status icons will display:
RED : 0 – 60%
ORANGE : > 60 – 85%
GREEN : > 85%

An additional section for 'Duplicate Patients' is included. The dashboard status for this section is calculated as the percentage of patients where no potential duplication exists.
Note: There will always be some potential duplication that is not an error but with a 'clean' database this should be small and the status icon should be green.

The Data Quality Dashboard provides links to the relevant RACGP fact sheets which provide information on addressing identified gaps and improving overall clinical data quality.

 

 

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