New Zealand National Audit of Outpatient Inflammatory Bowel Disease Standards of Care

Figures & data

Figure 1 Mean time spent on IBD nursing tasks (hours spent: error bars show 95% CI).

Figure 2 FTE of the IBD specialist nurse at each DHB, expressed as a percentage of that proposed in the 2016 Australian standard per 250,000 head population.

Table 1 Documentation of Key Auditable Outcomes of IBD Patient Care, Recorded During Nurse-Led and Doctor-Led Scheduled Outpatient Clinics

Key Auditable Outcome	N	% of Visits		P-value
		Doctor Led	Nurse Led
Weight documented	686	77	95	<0.0001*
Smoking status documented	687	64	73.8	0.014*
Smoking cessation advice offered	87	69	86	0.081
Surveillance colonoscopy arranged	379	66.2	79.6	0.009*

Note: *Statistically significant <0.05.