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.
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
All non-maternal/non-neonatal hospital admissions with a principal diagnosis code of asthma (ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-WHO diagnosis codes given) in a specified year.
All non-maternal/non-neonatal hospital admissions with a principal diagnosis code of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-WHO diagnosis codes given) in a specified year.
Risk-Standardised rate of acute, unplanned hospital admissions among Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) patients aged 65 years and older with multiple chronic conditions (MCCs).
All non-maternal/non-neonatal hospital admissions with principal diagnosis code of Congestive Heart Failure (ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-WHO diagnosis codes given) in a specified year.
Admissions with a principal diagnosis of dehydration per 100,000 population, ages 18 years and older. Excludes obstetric admissions and transfers from other institutions.
All non-maternal/non-neonatal hospital admissions with a principal diagnosis code of diabetes (ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-WHO diagnosis codes given) in a specified year.
All diabetic patients admitted for a major lower extremity amputation (ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-WHO diagnosis codes given) in a specified year. Only one major lower extremity amputation admission is to be counted for each diabetic patient in the specified year. The admission with the most severe amputation is to be selected if more than one admission is identified for a diabetic patient in the specified year.
All non-maternal/non-neonatal admissions with a procedure code of major lower extremity amputation in any field and a diagnosis code of diabetes in any field (ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-WHO diagnosis codes given) in a specified year
Percentage of index ED discharges that were followed by an unplanned acute care hospitalisation or ED visit (including observation stays) within 30 days
The number of hospital admissions with a primary diagnosis of asthma or COPD or CHF among people aged 15 years and over per 100 000 population.
Emergency admissions to hospital (indirectly standardised rate per 100,000 population) of persons with acute conditions (ear/nose/throat infections, kidney/urinary tract infections, angina, among others) that usually could have been avoided through better management in primary care.
Emergency department (ED) utilisation among commercial (18 and older) and Medicare (18 and older) health plan members.
The next few questions are about other health services you have used in the last 12 months. In the last 12 months, have you been to a hospital emergency department for your own medical care? (1= No, 2=Yes, once; 3=Yes, twice; 4=Yes, 3 or more times; 5=Not sure)
The number of emergency department visits per 1,000 patients for minor conditions which are unlikely to need hospital admission for treatment.
The indicator represents the number of visits to primary health care emergency services per 1,000 residents. The indicator includes the effects indicated as urgent in the Avohilmo data collection (the urgency categories of treatment are 1 = emergency services, or V = immediate), and the visits to joined emergency services reported on in Hilmo data collection through the specialised healthcare data system to the specialised field of general medicine (98 or acute = 15Y) and where the service type is 91 (emergency).
Indirectly age, sex, method of admission and diagnosis/procedure standardised percentage of emergency admissions to any hospital in England occurring within 30 days of the last, previous discharge from hospital after admission. Admissions for cancer and obstetrics are excluded
The percentage of emergency department (ED) visits for members 6 years of age and older with a principal diagnosis of mental illness or intentional self-harm, who had a follow-up visit for mental illness within 30 days of the ED visit (31 total days).
The percentage of emergency department (ED) visits for members 6 years of age and older with a principal diagnosis of mental illness or intentional self-harm, who had a follow-up visit for mental illness within 7 days of the ED visit (8 total days).
Emergency department (ED) visits for adults and children 6 years of age and older with a diagnosis of mental illness or intentional self-harm and who received a follow-up visit for mental illness within 7 and 30 days.
The percentage of discharges for patients 18 years of age and older who had a visit to the emergency department with a primary diagnosis of mental health or alcohol or other drug dependence during the measurement year AND who had a follow-up visit with any provider with a corresponding primary diagnosis of mental health or alcohol or other drug dependence within 7- and 30-days of discharge.
ED visits for members 18 years of age and older who have multiple high-risk chronic conditions and who had a follow-up service within 7 days of an ED visit.