Question

The nurse practitioner from an owned primary care practice of a growing hospital wants to trend the percentage of new patients who were newly diagnosed with diabetes by the practice over the past six months. She provides the clinical indicator to use of A1C levels of 6.5% or higher, equivalent to blood sugar level of 140 mg/dl or higher, on two separate occasions. A report was built to extrapolate data over the six-month period that reflects a total 4,860 appointments were seen, with 2,652 appointments being from new patients, 663 who were tested for diabetes and 345 had two blood sugar levels higher than 140 mg/dl on separate visit dates. How would you calculate the percentage of new patients who were newly diagnosed diabetic patients for the six-month period (round to one decimal place)?

Answer 1

Ans :- There are total 4860 appointments over a period of 6 months. Out of 4860, 2652 appointments are coming from new patients.

Sine the definition is saying that if a person has 140 mg/dl or higher blood sugar level on two separate visits, then we will consider him a newly diagonsed diabetic patients which in our case is 345

Therefore, the percentage of new patients who were newly diagnosed diabetic patients for the six-month period =

(345/2652)*100 = 13.009% = 13%