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.
Is the use of medicines appropriate?
Prevalence of clients with daily severe pain.
Proportion of home care clients with at least daily episodes of severe pain at follow-up. Prevalence indicator.
Are systematic pain assessments conducted?
Percentage of residents who had pain.
Percentage of residents who had pain.
Percentage of residents whose pain worsened since the prior assessment.
Percentage of residents whose pain worsened since the prior assessment.
Percentage of long-stay home care clients who complained or showed evidence of daily pain, among clients who received home care services for more than 60 days. A lower percentage is better.
Incidence of client's whose pain improved from prior assessment (incidence).
Percentage of home health quality episodes during which the patient's frequency of pain with activity or movement improved.
Prevalence of clients with inadequate pain control (prevalence).
Percentage of long-term care home residents who experienced moderate pain daily or any severe pain during the 7 days prior to their most recent resident assessment.
Percentage of residents who showed daily moderate or higher pain intensity or residents who showed non-daily very strong pain intensity in the last 7 days (frequency and intensity of observed pain in the last 7 days).
Percent of residents with pain.
Percentage of clients with daily pain (Pain Scale) last 3 days. Prevalence indicator.
Percentage of clients with pain, on medication or no pain medication. Pain frequency (pain present) and pain intensity (moderate to horrible/excruciating pain) on the Pain Scale. Prevalence indicator.
Proportion of home care clients with a reduction in pain since baseline. Incidence indicator.
Proportion of home care clients who have pain and are receiving inadequate pain control or no pain medication. Prevalence indicator.
Percentage of residents with daily moderate or higher pain intensity or residents with non-daily very strong pain intensity in the last 7 days (frequency and intensity of self-reported pain in the last 7 days).
Percent of residents with worsening pain.