The Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN) has designed this Diabetes and Obesity Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) intervention. This project is now complete the but the recipes below are provided for any CAT Plus user to implement their own CQI projects.
PEN CS has created the following recipes to enable practices to identify patients of interest for the CQI program and to enable practice to measure the progress they are making with the CQI Program goals.
- Ensure all diabetic patients are coded with the correct diagnosis in the clinical software.
- Increase adult smoking and alcohol status for patients with type II diabetes recorded in clinical software to 75%.
- Increase adult waist measurement for patients with type II diabetes recorded in clinical software to 75% or higher.
- Increase HbA1c recording for Type II diabetic patients to 95% or higher and increase ACR recording by 10%.