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.
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).
Percent of people registered as having disabilities who receive rehabilitation services visits from MHMS Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) staff per year.
Percentage of members 20 years and older who had who had an ambulatory or preventive care visit.
Percentage of inpatient days where a physician (or designated other) has indicated that a patient occupying an acute care hospital bed has finished the acute care phase of his/her treatment.
Proportion of inpatient days in acute and post-acute care settings that are spent as ALC in a specific time period.
Percentage of patients with intracerebral haemorrhage who were assessed for, or who received, rehabilitation services.
Presence and availability of workers in the organisation.
Total number of days patients spend delayed in hospital following their ready for discharge date.
Percentage of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) patients with a documented communication between the CR program and primary health care practitioner (PHCP).
The average number of home care visits each older person receives per home care worker.
Total number of home care workers providing care to an older person using home care services.
The average number of days that clients wait, between the Date Ready for Admission to the rehabilitation program and the actual date of admission.
Delayed discharge bed day rate per 1,000 population aged 75 and over.
Delayed discharge bed days as a proportion of all occupied bed days.
Average Delayed transfers of care (delayed days) for all reasons per 100,000 population.
The ratio of delayed days to adult bed days.
An inpatient rehabilitation facility's (IRF's) risk-standardised rate of Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) patients who are discharged to the community following an IRF stay.
Does the nursing home cooperate closely with the treating physician?
Estimated cost of delayed discharges across Scotland.
Proportion of follow up services [i.e., service within 7 days after emergency department (ED) visit] in Medicare beneficiaries with multiple high risk chronic conditions.
Average change in Functional Independence Measure (FIM) score per day.
Percentage of acute care inpatient days classified as Alternate Level of Care days.
Median number of days patients remain in hospital when they no longer need that level of care, until home care services or supports are ready.
Median number of days patients spend in an inpatient acute care hospital bed when they don't need acute care before they are discharged to home care, until home care services or supports are ready.
Median number of days patients remain in hospital when they no longer need that level of care, until home care services or supports are ready.