The AHRQ QIs have been translated into 18 Australian patient safety indicators, for application with the ICD-10 Australian Modification coding system, however comprehensive implementation and evaluation has not yet been performed [ 27].
Nearly 40%% of the remote Indigenous Australian population have indicators of CKD [ 9], therefore population salt-reduction may be particularly beneficial in reducing risk of CVD and CKD progression.
In the Indigenous Australian context, risk indicators of poor social and emotional well-being include social determinants such as poor education, employment, income and housing as well as substance use, racial discrimination and cultural knowledge.
So glacially has the gap been closing between Indigenous and other Australians on the important indicators – life expectancy, health outcomes, income, employment, imprisonment rates, child mortality, education – that even the sceptics of the left were willing to suspend judgment.
But the point is this: if the Australian market is any indicator, it was not Millennials' disdain for teen retailers that did in a large swathe of the American teen market.
The aggregation of economic and social indicators suggest that Australians and Western Australians in particular have prospered, but closer examination shows that there are "haves" and "have nots" and the gaps are in fact widening, depending upon people's access to the wealth generated by the resources boom.
Australian parents' reports of sleep problem severity were robust indicators of frequent night waking [ 26].
The social, political and economic indicators of Indigenous Australian wellbeing have, since the 1950s, been an acute source of international embarrassment to Australian federal and state politicians.
Many of the indicators came from Australian sources; however most remain relevant from a 'global north' perspective.
The Australian national set of diabetes indicators does not include any explicit PQI [ 11].
The aim of this study was to develop and validate Australian evidence-based medication-related indicators of potentially preventable hospitalisations.
