Median number of calendar days clients waited, from the date that the initial referral was received to the date when the first home care service was received.

The median number of calendar days clients waited, from the date that the initial referral was received to the date when the first home care service was received.

This is a continuous variable measure. The target population is the number of clients waiting to begin home care services (inferred).

QIs are drawn from clinical assessments (RAI MDS 2.0 interRAI) completed every three months on individuals living in all long-term care facilities across Alberta. The information is shared with the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).

Alberta Continuing Care Publicly Available Quality Indicators Report and Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) Shared Health Priorities website (Alberta's performance in comparison to Canadian averages). Alberta Continuing Care Publicly Available Quality Indicators Report provides an overview of Alberta's performance on nine publicly reported (Canadian Institute for Health Information) Quality Indicators (QI) in long-term care.

Alberta Continuing Care Publicly Available Quality Indicators page 41 www.albertahealthservices.ca/assets/about/data/ahs-data-rai-qs-2021.pdf