Indicators - Osteoarthritis of the Knee Clinical Care Standard
Indicators have been developed to support monitoring of the care recommended in the Standard. Clinicians and healthcare services can use the indicators to support local quality improvement activity.
Indicator specifications
Measurement is a key component of quality improvement processes. The Commission has developed a set of indicators to support clinicians and healthcare services to monitor how well they are implementing the care recommended in this clinical care standard. The indicators are intended to support local quality improvement activities. No benchmarks are set for these indicators by the Commission.
The definitions required to collect and calculate indicator data for this clinical care standard are specified online at meteor.aihw.gov.au/content/790044.
METEOR is an Australian web-based repository of nationally endorsed data and indicator definitions, hosted by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
Indicators for local monitoring
Each indicator is described below and links to individual specifications are provided.