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.
Hospital discharges with accidental punctures or lacerations (secondary diagnosis) per 1,000 discharges for patients ages 18 years and older who have undergone an abdominopelvic procedure, followed by a potentially related procedure for evaluation or treatment of the accidental puncture or laceration, one to 30 days after the index abdominopelvic procedure.
Percentage of Ambulatory Surgical Centre (ASC) patients who are transferred or admitted to a hospital upon discharge from the ASC.
Hospital discharges with central venous catheter-related bloodstream infections (secondary diagnosis) per 1,000 medical and surgical discharges among hospital discharges of patients ages 18 years and older or obstetric discharges for patients of any age.
The proportion of patients who experienced different causes of delayed hospital discharge.
The total number of patients in acute hospitals who were ready to leave hospital but were delayed.
The proportion of patients in hospital for 21+ days who are due to be discharged to a particular setting but are delayed (two-week rolling average).
Hospital discharge rates measure the number of patients who leave a hospital after receiving care.
Hospital discharges with iatrogenic pneumothorax (secondary diagnosis) per 1,000 surgical and medical discharges for patients ages 18 years and older
This indicator is a ratio, calculated as the number of separations (discharges and deaths) from acute care/same-day surgery facilities within a given region divided by the number of acute care/same-day surgery separations generated by residents of that region.
Number, percentage, and crude and age-standardised rate of discharges for mental health and substance use disorder hospitalisations, nationally and by province/territory.
The number of patients discharged from a hospital including those admitted for same-day and emergency admissions.
Hospital discharges with perioperative pulmonary embolism or proximal deep vein thrombosis (secondary diagnosis) per 1,000 surgical discharges for patients ages 18 years and older.
Hospital discharges with postoperative acute kidney failure (secondary diagnosis) requiring dialysis per 1,000 elective surgical discharges for patients ages 18 years and older
Discharges with postoperative haemorrhage or haematoma (secondary diagnosis) associated with a procedure to treat the haemorrhage or haematoma following surgery.
Hospital discharges with postoperative respiratory failure (secondary diagnosis), prolonged mechanical ventilation, or intubation cases per 1,000 elective surgical discharges for patients ages 18 years and older.
Hospital discharges with postoperative sepsis (secondary diagnosis) per 1,000 elective surgical discharges for patients ages 18 years and older.
Hospital discharges with postoperative reclosure procedures involving the abdominal wall with a diagnosis of disruption of internal operation (surgical) wound per 1,000 abdominopelvic surgery discharges for patients ages 18 years and older.
The number of hospital discharges with a retained surgical item or unretrieved device fragment (secondary diagnosis) among surgical and medical hospitalisations for patients ages 18 years and older or obstetric hospitalisations for patients of any age.