Benefit criteria used in weighting and scoring
| Category | Benefit criterion | Description |
| Service utilisation | Hospital activity | Includes information related to admissions and readmissions, plus surgical, medical and preventive interventions in hospital. Does NOT include hospital prescribing (see Prescribing) |
| Primary care activity | Includes information on consultations, interventions such as smoking advice and health promotion. Also includes community activity and Scottish Ambulance Service information. Does NOT include general practitioner prescribing (see Prescribing) | |
| Prescribing | Information on prescribing of CHD related treatments. This includes general practitioner prescribing, hospital dispensing, pharmacy dispensing and information on over-the-counter dispensing | |
| Socioeconomic impact | Information such as costs incurred by patients for access to services, days lost to illness, impact on carers | |
| Epidemiology | Risk factors | Information on CHD risk factors in the general population. These include hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, smoking, diet, diabetes, family history, lifestyle, health related behaviour, personality type |
| Prevalence | Prevalence in the population of myocardial infarction, angina, and heart failure | |
| Incidence | Information on new cases of myocardial infarction, angina and heart failure in each year | |
| Case registration | Ability to register individual patients with myocardial infarction, angina and heart failure so that they can be followed up | |
| Measuring effectiveness and outcomes | Mortality rates and case fatality | Includes information on all deaths from CHD in the community and in hospital. Total CHD plus diagnostic subgroups. Mortality rates in defined groups |
| Patient function | Information on the physical functioning of patients diagnosed with CHD. Might include mobility, activities of daily living, or angina grade | |
| Quality of life | Information on CHD patients' subjective perception of their wellbeing. Might include instruments for generating quality adjusted life years | |
| System quality | Compatibility for international comparisons | Ability to adhere to recognised specifications of surveys, diagnoses, or data interpretation that can allow for direct comparisons with CHD statistics similarly compiled elsewhere |
| Breadth of coverage | Ability to gather information that takes account of geographical and demographic differences between communities | |
| Frequency | Capability to conduct trend analyses from regular data collection. How often surveys and analyses are performed or disseminated |
CHD, coronary heart disease.