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.
Community-based services - distances between hospital and home in km
Dementia, including Alzheimer disease, crude and age-standardised incidence rate, per 100,000, age 65 years and older, Canada
Dementia, including Alzheimer disease, crude and age-standardised prevalence,age 65 years and older, Canada
Age and sex-standardised incidence rate of registered dementia diagnoses in the elderly population
Level of public awareness of palliative care.
CMS will calculate a performance rate and benchmarks using CMS administrative data, which will allow CMS to incorporate this metric into the performance-based payment adjustment more quickly (i.e., in the first or second model performance year). Specifically, CMS will use the CMS Minimum Data Set file to identify beneficiaries residing in a nursing home whose stay is not covered under the Medicare skilled nursing facility benefit.
Is the local network of palliative care formally established within the ASL (local health authority) of reference? Note: ALS indicates the Italian acronym of local health authority.
Number of participating institutions in the National Guidelines for Palliative Care (NGPC) biennial assessments for specialised and general palliative care providers.
Number of peer-reviewed journal publications on palliative care by authors whose main institutional affiliation is in Singapore.
Prevalence estimates are the beneficiaries with a particular condition (or MCC category) divided by the total number of beneficiaries in our fee-for-service population, expressed as a percentage.
Age and sex-standardised prevalence rate of registered dementia diagnoses in the elderly population
There are organisation policies and/ or procedures in place to ensure situational support for palliative care providers, and to identify and respond to critical incidents affecting staff.
The TPCC measure will measure performance on costs and incentivise reductions in a variety of avoidable utilisation categories, including hospital, ED, and post-acute care. TPCC is a MIPS measure.