Table 3 Impact of risk-adjustment on performance status.

From: Risk-adjustment of diabetes health outcomes improves the accuracy of performance benchmarking

Diabetes health outcome

Low-performing outliers

High-performing outliers

Total

False positives

Total

False positives

T2DM

HbA1c

6

6 (100%)

4

4 (100%)

LDL-Ch

4

4 (100%)

3

3 (100%)

SBP

4

4 (100%)

4

4 (100%)

Severe hypo

4

Ā 

1

Ā 

Total

18

14 (78%)

12

11 (92%)

T1DM

HbA1c

3

3 (100%)

Ā Ā 

LDL-Ch

1

1 (100%)

1

1 (100%)

SBP

2

2 (100%)

2

1 (50%)

Severe hypo

3

2 (67%)

Ā Ā 

Total

9

8 (89%)

3

2 (67%)

Overall

Total

27

22 (81%)

15

13 (87%)

  1. Abbreviations: HbA1c = glycated haemoglobin, hypo = hypoglycaemia, LDL-Ch = low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, SBP = systolic blood pressure, T1DM = type 1 diabetes mellitus, T2DM = type 2 diabetes mellitus.