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Table 5 Documentation frequency of access to care KPIs

From: Evaluating key performance indicators of the process of care in juvenile idiopathic arthritis

KPI

N (%)

Access to Care KPIs

Waiting times for rheumatologist consultation for patients with new onset JIA

 Number of patients with a qualitative or quantitative documentation for waiting times [n = 140]

24 (17%)

 Number of patients with an eligible date of referral reported [n = 24]a

18 (75%)

 Number of patients that met benchmark of time from referral to first visit in days, [n = 18]b

14 (78%)

  50th percentile in days, [n = 18]

24

  Non-systemic JIA patients in days, [n = 16]

24

  90th percentile in days, [n = 18]

46

  Non-systemic JIA patients in days, [n = 16]

45

Patients newly diagnosed with JIA with at least 1 visit to a pediatric rheumatologist in the first year of diagnosis

 Number of patients with new onset JIA (incident JIA) with at least one visit to a pediatric rheumatologist in the first year of diagnosis [n = 137]

137 (100%)

 Patients seen in yearly follow-up by a pediatric rheumatologist

 Number of patients with JIA seen by their pediatric rheumatologist at least once every year over their follow-up period [n = 137]

105 (77%)

  12 to 24 months after diagnosis [n = 128]

123 (96%)

  24 to 36 months after diagnosis [n = 89]

74 (83%)

  36 to 48 months after diagnosis [n = 36]

24 (67%)

  1. aIncludes approximate date used for eligible date of referral reported and complete date of referral reported. When no specific date was reported and only month/year, 15th of the month was used
  2. bBenchmark is 7 days for systemic JIA and 4 weeks for other types of JIA and denominator is n = 140