Development and pilot of an internationally standardized measure of cardiovascular risk management in European primary care

Table 1 Allocation of the quality indicators (QI) - Data collection methods and patient groups

Data collection method	Medical record audit				Patient survey				GP interview/ practice survey				overall number of QI
Quality of care domains*	LS	CP	O	PP	LS	CP	O	PP	LS	CP	O	PP
Patient groups
Patients with diabetes**	5 (4)	11 (3)	-	-	-	1 (0)	-	-	-	-	-	-	17 (7)
Patients with CVD	5 (4)	18 (9)	1 (1)	-	-	1 (0)	-	1 (0)	-	-	-	-	26 (14)
Patient at high risk for CVD	3 (0)	20 (7)	1 (1)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	24 (8)
Primary prevention group	-	-	-	-	2 (0)	3 (0)	1 (0)	-	-	-	-	-	6 (0)
Practice organisation	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18 (8)	15 (7)	-	33 (15)
Overall number of QI	13 (8)	49 (19)	2 (2)	0	2 (0)	5 (0)	1 (0)	1 (0)	0	18 (8)	15 (7)	0	106 (44)

* LS = Lifestyle; CP = Clinical processes; O = Organisational aspects; PP = Patient's perspective
** The group of patients with diabetes had been excluded in the study
The numbers refer to the broad set of 106 quality indicators (QI) that were scored "restricted valid" with a lower level of agreement within all country panels.
The numbers in brackets refer to the core set of 44 quality indicators (QI), as part of the broad set, that were scored "valid" with a high level of agreement within all country panels.

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