Waiting Time for Elective Outpatient Medical Visit (Nurses and Health Care Nurses) in Primary Health Care Exceeds 7 Days From Assessment of the Need for Treatment, Percentage of Appointments Kept (March)
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
The indicator gives the percentage (%) of all patients with a non-urgent nurses and health care nurses appointment in primary health care outpatient care who were not admitted to an appointment within one week. The indicator shows the situation in March.
Numerator
Number of patients with a non-urgent nurses and health care nurses appointment in outpatient primary care who where not admitted within three months.
Denominator
Total number of patients scheduled for a non-urgent nurses and health care nurses appointment in outpatient primary care.
Exclusions
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
None
Stratifications
Sex (male, female, combined); Municipality, sub-region, region, the well-being services county, hospital district, area for the regional state administrative agency, major region, university hospital special responsibility area, Mainland Finland/Åland, whole country
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Primary health care (THL)