Percentage of Facilities Meeting Minimum Standards to Deliver Tracer Services

Identifying Attributes

Care Settings
Primary Care
Country
World Health Organization
Publishing Organisation
World Health Organization (WHO): Primary health care measurement framework and indicators
Type of Quality Indicator
Outcome
IOM Quality Dimension
Effectiveness
Domain
Service Delivery and Care Planning

Defining Attributes

Definition

Percentage of facilities offering the service that have appropriate (according to tracer services): Staff and guidelines, Equipment, Diagnostics and Medicines and commodities.

Numerator

Number of health facilities that have the recommended staff, guidelines, equipment, diagnostics, medicines and commodities to provide tracer services, such as for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health, communicable diseases, and noncommunicable diseases.

Denominator

Total number of facilities surveyed.

Exclusions
Use of Risk Adjustment
No
Risk Adjustments

None

Stratifications

By facility type, managing authority, subnational, urban/rural.

Collection and Reporting Attributes

Type of Data Collection
Surveys
Data Collection Methods

Facility survey

Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Reporting Frequency
Reporting Frequency in Days
Indicator Has Recommended Targets
No

Source and Reference Attributes

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
Yes
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