Adequate Notice About Leaving Hospital

Identifying Attributes

Care Settings
Care Transitions
Country
England
Publishing Organisation
National Health Service (NHS): Adult Inpatient Survey
Type of Quality Indicator
Outcome
IOM Quality Dimension
Person-Centredness
Domain
Consumer Experience

Defining Attributes

Definition

Percentage of responses for each option of the question: Were you given enough notice about when you were going to leave hospital?

Numerator

Number of respondents who selected each option: 1 Yes, definitely 2 Yes, to some extent 3 No.

Denominator

Total number of survey respondents who selected any of the response options to the question.

Exclusions

None

Use of Risk Adjustment
Yes
Risk Adjustments

Standardised by: age, sex and method of admission (emergency or elective). Results for each demographic subgroup generated as estimated marginal means using a mixed effects model allowing for a binary outcome, featuring trust as a random trust effect and fixed effects of measured demographic and care characteristic factors (effects measured at the individual level). For analyses of single questions, the modelled binary outcome was the probability of a respondent selecting the most positive answer ("top box") for that question (i.e. selected most positive = 1; did not select the most positive = 0). The analysis modelled the responses of different subgroups by sex, gender, age, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, route of admission, length of stay, medical or surgical treatment, COVID-19 treatment status, ICD-10 chapter code, long-term condition, frailty and Index of Multiple Deprivation decile.

Stratifications

Data Attributes

Type of Data Collection
Surveys
Data Collection Methods

Data collected using the NHS Adult Inpatient Survey, administered by the Picker Institute Europe on behalf of the Care Quality Commission, using a postal self-completion survey method. The survey looks at the experiences of patients 16 years and over who have had at least one overnight stay in hospital as an inpatient, covering both elective and emergency care admissions. Trusts with fewer than 1,250 eligible discharges in November sample backwards into earlier months (working backwards from 30 November) to reach the required sample size.

Frequency of Data Collection
Annually
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
365
Reporting Methods

Published on NHS surveys website.

Reporting Frequency
Annually
Reporting Frequency in Days
365
Indicator Has Recommended Targets
No

Source and Reference Attributes

Link to Measurement Tools
Quality Indicator Confirmed to be Part of a Program Used to Monitor Quality and Safety of Care Among Older People at a Population-Level between 2012-2022
Yes
Assessed by the Australian Consortium for Aged Care Collaborators as Generally Containing Good Properties (Importance and Scientific Acceptability)
Yes
Australian Consortium for Aged Care Endorsed
No
Identified by PHARMA-Care Project
No
Upload Date
12 March 2025