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Table 5 Five deleted indicators and ratings in the consensus meeting

From: Development of type 2 diabetes mellitus quality indicators in general practice by a modified Delphi method in Beijing, China

Indicator

Importance

Feasibility

Comments

Median

Agreement

Median

Agreement

Ankle-brachial index monitoring

9.0

88.9%

6.5

44.4%

The test is not available in many CHSIs

T2DM related admission days in hospital

9.0

100.0%

7.0

66.7%

Lack of access to hospital EHR and difficulty to obtain from patient survey

Rational use of medicines

9.0

88.9%

7.0

66.7%

Difficult to define and difficulty in data collection in the current EHR

Incidence of complications

9.0

88.9%

7.0

66.7%

Many confounding factors and the need of long-term observation

Quality of life

8.0

66.7%

6.0

33.3%

Many confounding factors on the indicator

  1. Abbreviations: T2DM Type 2 diabetes mellitus; CHSI Community health service institution; EHR Electronic health record