Percentage of People Who Died in Ontario Who Had One or More Unplanned Emergency Department Visits in Their Last 30 Days of Life
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
This indicator measures the percentage of people who died in Ontario who had one or more unplanned emergency department visits in their last 30 days of life.
Numerator
The number of people in Ontario who died in reporting period who had one or more unplanned emergency department visits in their last 30 days of life.
Denominator
Number of people in Ontario who died in reporting period who were not in an acute care hospital in the last 30 days of life.
Exclusions
Excludes patients who were hospitalised in an acute care facility for the last 30 days of life.
If the sum of all episodes of care in acute care facilities during the last 30 days of life equals 30 days, the patient is considered hospitalised for the duration of interest, and is excluded.
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
Stratifications
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Decedent Cohort; National Ambulatory Care Reporting System; Discharge Abstract Database.
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Public reporting.