Median Time From Organ Transplantation to Hospital Discharge
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
The median number of days between organ transplantation and discharge of the transplant recipient.
Numerator
The median number of days from organ transplantation to discharge of the transplant recipient.
Denominator
This QI reports the median.
Exclusions
Hospitalisations with an invalid discharge date. For organs other than kidneys and livers, the first transplantation procedure in the hospitalisation was an organ retransplantation: CORR: Graft number is greater than 1 or, HMDB: A previous transplantation of the same organ had occurred in the same patient since 2013. Invalid health card number or code for province issuing health card number. Hospitalisations where the first transplantation procedure that occurred involved transplantation of multiple organs, aside from a kidney–liver or kidney–pancreas transplant (transplants that involve additional organs to a kidney–liver or kidney–pancreas transplant are excluded).
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
Stratifications
By sex, age, organ, donor type, diagnosis category, neighbourhood income quintile of patient residence, patient urban, rural or remote residence and reporting level: National, Province/Territory.
Collection and Reporting Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Hospital Morbidity Database (HMDB), Canadian Organ Replacement Register (CORR)