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.

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Rural and Remote CareUnited States of AmericaCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): Rural Emergency Hospital Quality Reporting Program

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).

Primary CareUnited States of AmericaCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): Medicare Advantage (Part C) and Part D Star Ratings

The percentage of members 20 years and older (denominator) who had an ambulatory or preventive care visit during the measurement year (numerator).

Hospital CareNew ZealandHealth Quality & Safety Commission: Health System Indicators

The acute bed days per capita rates are presented using the number of bed days for acute hospital stays per 1000 population domiciled within a District with age standardisation.

Rehabilitation CareCanadaCorHealth Ontario: Quality Indicators for Virtual Cardiovascular Rehabilitation during COVID-19 and Beyond

Percentage of scheduled centre-based exercise sessions attended during cardiac rehabilitation (CR) among enrolled patients.

Primary CareFinlandFinnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)

The indicator represents the percentage of oral health care patients aged 18 or older who have made six or more visits to dental health care per year, among all dental health care patients of a similar age. The municipality to examine will be the municipality where the first visit was made, where patients have made visits in several municipalities.

Primary CareUnited States of AmericaNational Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA): Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS)

The percentage of members 20 years and older who had an ambulatory or preventive care visit.

Hospital CareFinlandThe National Institute for Health and Welfare, Sotkanet

Index calculated for all Finnish municipalities to describe the number of care days for patients in inpatient hospital care in relation to the average for the country's total population (=100).

Primary CareFinlandFinnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)

The indicator describes the morbidity of the older population groups to some extent, but especially the regional and nationwide use of hospital services in primary health care. In addition to morbidity, the factors influencing service use include population age structure, service supply, treatment practices (particularly the provision of care at different levels of the health-care system) and the threshold for seeking care.

Hospital CareFinlandThe National Institute for Health and Welfare, Sotkanet

Index calculated for all Finnish municipalities to describe the number of periods of care for patients in hospital care in relation to the average for the country's total population (=100).

Primary CareFinlandFinnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)

The indicator describes the morbidity of the older population groups to some extent, but especially the regional and nationwide use of hospital services in primary health care. In addition to morbidity, the factors influencing service use include population age structure, service supply, treatment practices (particularly the provision of care at different levels of the health-care system) and the threshold for seeking care.

Primary CareFinlandFinnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)

The indicator gives the number of all non-institutional care visits in primary health care per 1,000 inhabitants, including e-service appointments.

Hospital CareAustraliaProductivity Commission: Health - Ambulance Services

Total ambulance service organisation expenditure per person in the population.

Primary CareScotlandScottish Government: Scottish Care Experience Survey Programme

Roughly, how often have you contacted this General Practice in the last 12 months? The response options to Question 2 are: (1) Once, (2) 2 to 4 times, (3) 5 to 10 times, (4) More than 10 times.

Primary CareUnited States of AmericaCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): Comprehensive Primary Care Plus

The annualised total number of services that "provide little to no benefit to patients, have potential to cause harm, incur unnecessary costs to patients, or waste limited healthcare resources", per 1,000 beneficiaries.

Primary CareFinlandFinnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)

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 asthma. Reason for visit J45 Asthma.

Hospital CareCanadaCanadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)

This indicator provides the number of emergency department (ED) visits and median length of stay (in minutes) for asthma. The length of stay is the time elapsed from the patient's registration to the time he or she physically leaves the ED.

Hospital CareAustraliaNew South Wales Bureau of Health Information (BHI)

The mean of total bed days for all completed episodes of care within the defined period.

Hospital CareIrelandHealth Service Executive (HSE): Acute Key Performance Indicators

The ALOS in days for all inpatient discharges and deaths excluding Length of Stay over 30 days. Length of stay is counted from the date of admission of the patient to an inpatient hospital bed until their date of discharge.

Residential Aged CareDenmarkStatistics Denmark: Social Benefits for Senior Citizens Indicators

The number of bed days per exit according to diagnosis.

Primary CareUnited States of AmericaCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): Traditional Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)

Percentage of patients aged 16 years and older with a new onset diagnosis of Bell's palsy who had a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or a computed tomography (CT) scan of the internal auditory canal, head, neck, or brain ordered within 3 months after diagnosis

Primary CareEnglandNational Health Service (NHS): 111 Minimum Data Set

Of the number of calls received, how many did the caller make a selection in response to an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) message applied by the local NHS 111 call receiving organisation.

Primary CareEnglandNational Health Service (NHS): 111 Minimum Data Set

Of the calls assessed by a clinician, how many originated from an Ambulance service.

Rehabilitation CareCanadaGrace et al. (2014): Pan-Canadian development of cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention quality indicators

Percentage of CR-eligible patients enrolled in a program post hospital discharge.

Rehabilitation CareCanadaCorHealth Ontario: Quality Indicators for Virtual Cardiovascular Rehabilitation during COVID-19 and Beyond

Percentage of enrolled patients who completed the cardiac rehabilitation (CR) program.

Rehabilitation CareAustraliaQueensland Health Cardiac Rehabilitation Services: Clinical Standard for Cardiac Rehabilitation Services

Percentage of cardiac rehabilitation participants completing an initial assessment and participating in at least one education and/or exercise intervention

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