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 measure calculates the percentage of abdomen studies that are performed with and without contrast out of all abdomen studies performed (those with contrast, those without contrast, and those with both).
Percentage of members 20 years and older who had who had an ambulatory or preventive care visit.
Proportion of facilities that provide antibiogram to prescribers.
Proportion of leaders in small rural hospitals responsible for antibiotic stewardship.
Proportion of facilities policy or formal procedure for other interventions to ensure optimal use of antibiotics.
Proportion of facilities that provide antibiotic use reports to prescribers, at least annually.
Percentage of patients surveyed who "Strongly Agree" they understood their care when they left the hospital.
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) rate per 1000 urinary catheter days.
Central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) rate per 1000 central line days.
Percentage of patients surveyed who reported that their room and bathroom were "Always" clean.
Inpatient Facility CDI (Clostridioides difficile infection) healthcare facility-onset incidence rate (numerator/ denominator x 10,000).
Proportion of leaders in small rural hospitals committed to antibiotic stewardship.
Percentage of patients surveyed who reported that their doctors "Always" communicated well.
Percentage of patients surveyed who reported that their nurses "Always" communicated well.
Percentage of patients surveyed who reported that staff "Always" explained about medicines before giving them.
Central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) central line utilisation ratio.
Urinary Catheter Utilisation Ratio.
Percentage of patients surveyed who reported that "Yes" they were given information about what to do during their recovery at home.
Percentage of patients who are transferred from an emergency department (ED) to another health care facility that have all necessary communication made available to the receiving facility in a timely manner.
Proportion of facilities with a stewardship program has engaged bedside nurses in actions to optimise antibiotic use.
Facility-level risk-standardised rate of acute, unplanned hospital visits within 7 days of a colonoscopy procedure performed at a Rural Emergency Hospital among Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) patients aged 65 years and older. An unplanned hospital visit is defined as an emergency department (ED) visit, observation stay, or unplanned inpatient admission.
Proportion of follow up services [i.e., service within 7 days after emergency department (ED) visit] in Medicare beneficiaries with multiple high risk chronic conditions.
30 day hospital wide readmission as an inpatient for any cause except planned readmission.
Percentage of health care workers given influenza vaccination.