Quality Indicator Repository
Quality indicators are standardised, evidence-based measures used to monitor and evaluate the quality and safety of care. The ACAC developed a Quality Indicator Repository. For information on its development see this document.
Please navigate the Quality Indicator Repository to learn about the quality indicators we identified across care settings and their defining, data, and source attributes. You can also use the Quality Indicator Repository to download quality indicators of interest to you.
Define a success as: (a) the patient being discharged to the community from the Skilled Nursing Facility (in this case a CLC) within 100 calendar days of the index hospital discharge, and (b) remain in the community (i.e. alive, and outside of institutional care such as hospital or nursing facility) for at least 30 days following the CLC discharge
Percentage of separations from an inpatient unit where the consumer was readmitted (planned or unplanned) to any inpatient unit within 28 days of separation.
Percentage of people told by a specialist if they had cancer, or if cancer was definitively excluded, within four weeks (28-days) of an urgent referral.
Hospital level measure of performance that reports the average patient reported quality of preparation for self-care response among adult patients discharged from general acute care hospitals within the past 30 days.
Hospital level measure of performance that reports the average patient reported quality of preparation for self-care response among adult patients discharged from general acute care hospitals within the past 30 days.
3-Item Care Transition Measure (CTM-3)
30 day all cause emergency department visits
Percent of heart failure patients (unadjusted) with one or more re-hospitalisations in the first 30 days post discharge.
Risk-adjusted rate of urgent readmission following discharge for acute myocardial infarction
The rate (per 100 patient discharges) of unplanned returns to a hospital within 30 days of discharge. It includes medical patients who were hospitalised for non-surgical treatment, and patients who had surgery while in hospital. Alternate Name: Hospital Readmission Rate Within 30 Days Of Leaving Hospital For Medical Or Surgical Treatment
30-day all-cause hospital readmissions
Risk-adjusted rate of all-cause urgent readmission occurring within 30 days following discharge for an episode of care with an isolated coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
Risk-adjusted rate of all-cause urgent readmission occurring within 30 days following discharge for an episode of care with a percutaneous coronary intervention
Unplanned, 30-day, risk-standardised readmission rate for patients discharged from an inpatient psychiatric facility with a principal discharge diagnosis of a psychiatric disorder or dementia/Alzheimer's disease.
Patients without a completed 30-day follow up form, grouped by days since discharge.
Percentage of Heart Failure patients who participated in an outpatient cardiac rehabilitation or disease management program within 30 days of discharge.
This measure scores a hospital on the incidence among its patients during the month following discharge from an inpatient stay having a primary diagnosis of heart failure for three types of events: readmissions, ED visits and evaluation and management (E&M) services.
This measure scores a hospital on the incidence among its patients during the month following discharge from an inpatient stay having a primary diagnosis of heart failure for three types of events: readmissions, ED visits and evaluation and management (E&M) services.
This measure scores a hospital on the incidence among its patients during the month following discharge from an inpatient stay having a primary diagnosis of PNA for three types of events: readmissions, ED visits and evaluation and management (E&M) services.
30-day readmission (i.e. discharged alive and readmitted within 30 days)
Risk-adjusted rate of readmission following discharge for mental health and substance use disorders.
Rate of un-planned hospital readmissions within 30 days of discharge after hospitalisation for any of the following conditions: pneumonia, diabetes, stroke, gastrointestinal disease, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart attack and other cardiac conditions. Alternate Name: Hospital Readmission Rate Within 30 Days Of Leaving Hospital For Selected Conditions
30-day readmissions
Percentage of Heart Failure patients who are referred to an outpatient cardiac rehabilitation or disease management program within 30 days of discharge.
Number of rehospitalisations occurring within 30 days of discharge from an acute care hospital (prospective payment system (PPS) or critical access hospital (CAH)) per 1000 FFS Medicare beneficiaries at the state and community level by quarter and year.