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.
To determine the percentage of patients accessing specialist palliative care inpatient beds within seven days. This is the calculation of the number of patients who were admitted to a specialist palliative care inpatient bed within seven days of receipt of referral expressed as a percentage of the total number of patients admitted in the reporting month.
Did you feel that the professional carers gave you all the help and support you needed to care for your relative?
Did you feel supported by the professional carers immediately after the death of your relative? Was there a farewell- or staff appraisal interview that looked back on the care and treatment that was provided? Were the possibilities of after-care pointed out to you after the death of your relative?
Percentage of patients aged 65 years and older who have an advance care plan or surrogate decision maker documented in the medical record or documentation in the medical record that an advance care plan was discussed but the patient did not wish or was not able to name a surrogate decision maker or provide an advance care plan.
Age normalised incidence of palliative radiation therapy for skeletal metastases in prostate cancer is a palliative care quality indicator described in the Swedish national guidelines for breast, colorectal and prostate cancer care.
This is a multi-data element measure consisting of four data elements: Q1: "I felt heard and understood by this provider and team," Q2: "I felt this provider and team put my best interests first when making recommendations about my care," Q3: "I felt this provider and team saw me as a person, not just someone with a medical problem," Q4: "I felt this provider and team understood what is important to me in my life."
The percentage of patients aged 18 years and older who had an ambulatory palliative care visit and report getting the help they wanted for their pain from their palliative care provider and team within 6 months of the ambulatory palliative care visit.
Was there an individual prescription of an injectable PRN drug against anxiety on the drug list before death?
Was there an individual prescription of an injectable PRN drug against death rattles on the drug list before death?
Was there an individual prescription of an injectable PRN drug against nausea on the drug list before death?
Anticipatory medication for the dying patient is available for a palliative patient 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Adults in the last days of life who are likely to need symptom control are prescribed anticipatory medicines with individualised indications for use, dosage and route of administration.
Adults in the last days of life who are likely to need symptom control are prescribed anticipatory medicines with individualised indications for use, dosage and route of administration.
Adults in the last days of life who are likely to need symptom control are prescribed anticipatory medicines with individualised indications for use, dosage and route of administration.
The withholding of artificial (or parenteral) nutrition/fluid in the last 24 h is perceived as good clinical practice and as a relevant quality indicator for care of the dying in Sweden. The end of life questionnaire item to measure this indicator is: Did the person receive parenteral fluids/nutrition during the last 24 hours of life?
Adults who have signs and symptoms that suggest they may be in the last days of life are monitored for further changes to help determine if they are nearing death, stabilising or recovering.
Adults who have signs and symptoms that suggest they may be in the last days of life are monitored for further changes to help determine if they are nearing death, stabilising or recovering.
Adults who have signs and symptoms that suggest they may be in the last days of life are monitored for further changes to help determine if they are nearing death, stabilising or recovering.
Adults who have signs and symptoms that suggest they may be in the last days of life are monitored for further changes to help determine if they are nearing death, stabilising or recovering.
Adults who have signs and symptoms that suggest they may be in the last days of life are monitored for further changes to help determine if they are nearing death, stabilising or recovering.
Did the professional carers ask how you were feeling?
Have your professional carers checked how you are feeling?
Percent of families reporting they were informed of what to expect around the time of death.
Provision of interpreter or translators for non-English–speaking or deaf patients.