Waiting Time of Over 3 Months Since Assessment of the Need for Treatment for a Non-Emergency Appointment With a Primary Health Care Doctor in Outpatient Care, Percentage of Completed Appointments (Status in March)
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
The indicator provides information on the waiting time for elective outpatient medical visits (physician) in primary health care that exceeds 3 months from contact as a percentage of all elective outpatient appointments kept. The waiting time is calculated from the first contact made to the completed procedure. The indicator includes Register of Primary Health Care visits (Avohilmo) visits, which contain waiting time monitoring data. The indicator describes the situation in March.
Numerator
Number of elective outpatient medical (physician) appointments in primary care with a wait-time of greater than 3 months from initial contact.
Denominator
Total number of elective outpatient medical (physician) visits in primary care.
Exclusions
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
None
Stratifications
Municipality, sub-region, region, the well-being services county, hospital district, collaborative area, area for the regional state administrative agency, major region, university hospital special responsibility area, Mainland Finland, whole country
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Primary health care (THL)