Hospital Day-Case Discharges

Identifying Attributes

Care Settings
Dementia Care
Country
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publishing Organisation
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): OECD Health Database
Type of Quality Indicator
Outcome
IOM Quality Dimension
Effectiveness
Domain
Risks During Hospitalisation

Defining Attributes

Definition

Hospital day-case discharges by Alzheimer's disease. A day-care discharge is the release of a patient who was formally admitted in a hospital for receiving planned medical and paramedical services, and who was discharged on the same day.

Numerator

Number of hospital day-case discharges by Alzheimer's disease, multiply 100 000

Denominator

Number of population

Exclusions

Transfers to other care units within the same hospital, Inpatient cases, Outpatient cases (including emergency department visits), Patients admit

Use of Risk Adjustment
No
Risk Adjustments
Stratifications

Collection and Reporting Attributes

Type of Data Collection
Administrative data
Data Collection Methods

Data provided by individual countries

Frequency of Data Collection
Continuous
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
1
Reporting Methods

Data not reported in OECD Health Statistics, indicator information obtained from technical document on Hospital discharges by diagnostic categories

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

Source and Reference Attributes

Evidence Source

Data not reported in OECD Health Statistics, indicator information obtained from technical document on Hospital discharges by diagnostic categories

Technical Specifications
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
No
Assessed by the Australian Consortium for Aged Care Collaborators as Generally Containing Good Properties (Importance and Scientific Acceptability)
No
Australian Consortium for Aged Care Endorsed
No
Identified by PHARMA-Care Project
No
Upload Date
02 December 2025