Percentage of designated supportive living or long-term care residents that returned to the emergency department within 72 hours or 30 days of their initial or previous visit to the emergency department.

Total number of emergency department and urgent care centre visits which occurred between 6 hours of initial discharge and 72 hours or 30 days thereafter for designated supportive living or long-term care residents.

Total number of initial emergency department/urgent care centre discharges for designated supportive living or long-term care residents.

Any visits which resulted in admission/transfer to hospital, death.

Setting (long-term care, and designated supportive living - levels 4 and 4D) and number of days (72 hours or 30 days).

Alberta Continuing Care Information System (ACCIS), National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS).

FOCUS on Healthcare on the Health Quality Council of Alberta website.

focus.hqca.ca/charts/emergency-department-return-visits/

^Data dictionary: focus.hqca.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FOCUS-LTC-Return-to-ED_Dec2020.pdf