Project aims | Data collection modules | Participating diabetes centres

Background

The Australian National Diabetes Audit (ANDA) is a national clinical quality audit.

It is a centralised quality assurance activity aiming to improve the quality of care provided to patients with diabetes.

ANDA is coordinated by Monash University in conjunction with the National Association of Diabetes Centres and participating primary, secondary and tertiary care diabetes centres across Australia.

ANDA collects data about patients’ diabetes treatments, complications, self-care practices and quality of life outcomes. This information is then reported back to the diabetes centres and relevant stakeholders to help determine what factors contribute to and promote better patient care and outcomes.

The reports provide a unique opportunity for diabetes centres to benchmark their performance against their peers across Australia and the different segments of the health system. Ultimately it is hoped to be able to benchmark performance of Australian diabetes centres with international centres.

ANDA is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health; their generous contribution and enthusiastic support for ANDA is a testament to the importance of this nationwide quality assurance activity.

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Project aims

ANDA is a clinical quality audit aiming to improve the quality of care provided to patients attending primary, secondary and tertiary health care services (diabetes centres) for management of diabetes.

ANDA’s primary focus is to provide regular and relevant feedback to diabetes centres so they can benchmark their clinical outcomes as well as compare themselves with their peers. This has been universally found to be a worthwhile activity for improving care and outcomes for patients with diabetes.

ANDA aims to:

• Provide a diabetes dataset aligned with national reporting guidelines
• Create a centralised mechanism for providing feedback
• Benchmark clinical outcomes and improve patient care
• Identify areas of excellence and opportunities for improvement
• Access adequacy of resources available
• Facilitate development of procedures, clinical guidelines and policies
• Identify population groups that may require better access to care

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Data collection modules

ANDA aims to have a broad diabetes focus and it is anticipated that the activity will expand to collect a dataset of many different aspects of diabetes care and outcomes.

Data is collected for patients attending diabetes centres in participating Australian health services.

Currently ANDA has two data collection modules for which sites can choose to contribute:

• Clinical indicators: Clinical indicator data collection assesses a standardised set of predefined clinical parameters including demographic variables, biological variables and clinical outcomes known to impact patients with diabetes.
• Patient-reported education, self-care and quality of life indicators: This data collection assesses a standardised set of predefined patient self-management parameters including lifestyle factors, education and quality of life outcomes as well as health professional utilisation.

For more information about the specific type of patient information collected in ANDA, please visit our Patient Information page.

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Participating diabetes centres

ANDA-AQCA 2019 Diabetes centres participate in ANDA voluntarily