Percentage of Home Care Clients With an Unplanned, Less-Urgent Emergency Department Visit Within the First 30 Days of Discharge From Hospital
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Percentage of home care clients with an unplanned less urgent emergency department visit within the first 30 days of hospital discharge.
Numerator
Number of home care clients with an unplanned emergency department visit where ED Registration Date is within 30 days of Hospital Index case.
Denominator
Client that received home care service within 30 days of hospital discharge.
Exclusions
Invalid Health Card Numbers: HCNindex=D; 2. Palliative Care Clients: Last SRC= 95; 3. Newborn or Stillborn Discharges: Hospital Entry code = N, S; 4. Cadaver Donor Discharges: Hospital Admit Category=R; 5. Case Management Services: Service Type Code=10; 6. Clients less than 18 at time of hospital discharge: Hospital Age <19; 7. Hospital transfer to acute care: Instto_type=1 AND Disposition code= 01; 8. Hospital sign-outs and deaths: Disposition code = 06 or 07.
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
Stratifications
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Numerator: National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS); Denominator: Home Care Database (HCD) and Discharge Abstract Database (DAD).
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Quality Improvement Plan (home care).