Diabetes: Statin prescribed (age ≥40)
Clinical Quality & Outcomes
How this indicator is defined
Methodology version v1.0
Percentage of rostered patients with diabetes age ≥40 who have an active statin prescription in their medication profile.
Proportion of eligible patients (percentage)
The percentage of eligible patients (the denominator) who have at least one Diabetes statin prescription record within the 1-year window. Each patient is counted once.
Data inputs
- Diabetes statin prescription
Derived from
What this indicator measures— Name, alignment, goal, rationale.
- Indicator nameField 1 — Indicator name
- Diabetes: Statin prescribed (age ≥40)
- AlignmentField 2 — Alignment
- Diabetes Canada Clinical Practice Guidelines (2018) — Cardiovascular risk reduction
- Canadian Cardiovascular Society Guidelines
- Strategic goalField 3 — Strategic goal
- Reduce cardiovascular risk in patients with diabetes through appropriate statin therapy.
- RationaleField 5 — Rationale
- Patients with diabetes have 2–4× higher cardiovascular risk. Statin therapy reduces major cardiovascular events by 25–35% regardless of baseline cholesterol in this population.
How it's computed— Scoring method, numerator, denominator, inclusions, exclusions.
- NumeratorField 6 — Numerator
- Rostered patients in the denominator with an active statin prescription documented in the EMR medication list as of reporting-period end.
- DenominatorField 7 — Denominator
Active rostered patients with diabetes, age ≥40 at reporting-period end.
- Sex eligibility: F, M
- Age range: 40–85
- Active as of reporting-period end: yes
- ExclusionsField 9 — Exclusions
- Patients with documented statin intolerance/contraindication.
- Patients deceased before the reporting-period end date.
How patients are attributed— Attribution rule and risk adjustment.
- Attribution ruleField 10 — Attribution rule
- Enrolment (rostered)
- Risk-adjustment modelField 11 — Risk-adjustment model
- None
How comparison works— Peer group, reliability threshold, peer comparator.
- Reliability thresholdField 13 — Reliability threshold
- 20
Data + reporting— Data source, reporting frequency, direction of improvement, limitations.
- Reporting frequencyField 15 — Reporting frequency
- quarterly
- Direction of improvementField 16 — Direction of improvement
- Higher is better
Targets + governance— Target, justification, owner, review, approval, version, notes.
- TargetField 18 — Target
- 75.0% — the clinic's target for this indicator, set by the product owner.
- Methodology versionField 23 — Methodology version
- v1.0