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Duplicate Patients Report

 

Data Quality >
Duplicate
Patients
Report

The Duplicate Patients Report is a list of patient records within the clinical system where duplication is suspected.

The report is divided into 2 parts:

  • Name match – a match on all of:

    Surname, First name initial, Gender and DOB

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  • Number match – a match on any of:

    Medicare number Practices may find duplicate Medicare numbers appear if their clinical system CAT extractor is not including the Medicare index number in the full number

    HCC number
    DVA number

    The population is Total Patients.

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The report can be sorted by any of the columns. The default sorting is:

  1. Name match by surname then first name
  2. Number match by Medicare number then surname

 

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Appendix A: Data Indicators

 

 

Indicator

Numerator

Denominator

1. Allergies and Adverse Reactions

 

 

Allergy status recorded

Number of patients with an allergy status recorded
(Allergy recorded or no known allergies)

Active patients

Allergy recorded – coded format

Number of allergies recorded that are not NKA from a coded table of available allergens

Number of allergies for active patients recorded that are not NKA

Allergy recorded – reaction completed

Number of allergies recorded that are not NKA that have content in the reaction field

Number of allergies for active patients recorded that are not NKA

2. Medicines

 

 

Medications – coded reason for prescribing

Number of prescriptions for current medications in active patients where the reason

for prescribing is recorded from a coded pick list

Number of prescriptions for current medications recorded for active patients

3. Medical History

 

 

Diagnosis recorded – coded format in past history

Number of diagnoses entered in the past history which have been entered in a coded format

Number of diagnoses recorded in the past history for active patients

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