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.
This is a composite measure about access to care.
Average daily quantity per item for Nitrofurantoin 50 mg tablets and capsules, Nitrofurantoin 100 mg m/r capsules, Pivmecillinam 200 mg tablets and Trimethoprim 200 mg tablets prescribed for uncomplicated urinary tract infection.
Percentage of people with diabetes that receive two or more A1C (HbA1c) tests per year.
Percentage of enrolled patients with diabetes who have had the A1c test in the past 6 months.
If you ask to make an appointment with a doctor 3 or more working days in advance, does your General Practice allow you to? The response options to Question 4 are: (1) Yes, (2) No, (3) Don't know.
The indicator shows the proportion of responses to the following question: Can you electronically exchange the following with any doctors outside your practice? Do not include fax or regular email: Laboratory and diagnostic tests; Response options: (1) Yes, (2) No, (3) Not sure
The indicator shows the proportion of responses to the following question: Can you electronically exchange the following with any doctors outside your practice? Do not include fax or regular email: Lists of all medications taken by an individual patient; Response options: (1) Yes, (2) No, (3) Not sure
The indicator shows the proportion of responses to the following question: Can you electronically exchange the following with any doctors outside your practice? Do not include fax or regular email: Patient clinical summaries; Response options: (1) Yes, (2) No, (3) Not sure
Patients who were able to get a same-day or next-day appointment when sick.
Enrollee experience related to the following: Got care as soon as needed, Got non-urgent appointment as soon as needed, How often it was easy to get necessary care, tests, or treatment, Got appointment with specialists as soon as needed.
The percentage of population aged 12 and older with self-reported regular medical doctor.
The weighted percentage of GP patient survey respondents who report their experience of making a GP appointment as 'fairly good' or 'very good'.
Enrollee experience related to the following: Written materials or Internet provided information needed about how plan works, Found out from health plan about cost for health care service or equipment, Found out from health plan about cost for specific prescriptions.
The weighted percentage of people who successfully obtained an NHS dental appointment out of those who tried in the last two years.
People who had surgery or care that was planned in advance, as a percentage of the agreed number of events in the delivery plan.
The percentage of members 20 years and older (denominator) who had an ambulatory or preventive care visit during the measurement year (numerator).
The indicator shows the share of outpatient visits in basic health care per all registered reasons for visits classified in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Version 10 (ICD-10), when the reason for the outpatient visit is an accident. Reason for visit S00 - T98 Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes.
Thera re national and/or subnational mechanisms for accreditation of education and training institutions, health care organisations, and their programmes, measured against key criteria.
Percent of enrolled patients 18 years of age and over with congestive heart failure who have been reviewed for exemptions from using ACE Inhibitors / ARB (LVEF=>40% and/or any other) or who are prescribed ACE inhibitors or ARB in the last 12 months.
Percentage of index acute care hospital discharges that were followed by an unplanned acute care hospitalisation or ED visit (including observation stays) within 30 days
Percentage of index acute care hospital discharges that were followed by an unplanned readmission within 30 days
Acute inpatient and observation stay discharges among adult commercial and Medicare health plan members
The indicator shows the share of outpatient visits in basic health care per all registered reasons for visits classified in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Version 10 (ICD-10), when the reason for the outpatient visit is acute upper respiratory infection. Reason for visit J06 Acute upper respiratory infections of multiple and unspecified sites.
Percentage of people who are long-term users of glucose regulating medication with concomitant use of one or more prescriptions of cholesterol lowering medication.
Percentage of patients with ADHD who have had their ADHD care plan reviewed or ADHD symptom screening in the last 12-months.