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).

Rehabilitation CareSolomon IslandsMinistry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS)

Percent of people registered as having disabilities who receive rehabilitation services visits from MHMS Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) staff per year.

Rural and Remote CareUnited States of AmericaCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): Pennsylvania Rural Health Model (PARHM)

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

Care TransitionsCanadaHealth Quality Ontario

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.

Care TransitionsCanadaHealth Quality Ontario

Proportion of inpatient days in acute and post-acute care settings that are spent as ALC in a specific time period.

Rehabilitation CareUnited States of AmericaAmerican Heart Association: Get With The Guidelines - Stroke

Percentage of patients with intracerebral haemorrhage who were assessed for, or who received, rehabilitation services.

Residential Aged CareNetherlandsRegister of Care Institute, National Quality Organisation

Presence and availability of workers in the organisation.

Care TransitionsScotlandPublic Health Scotland: Delayed Discharges in NHS Scotland

Total number of days patients spend delayed in hospital following their ready for discharge date.

Rehabilitation CareCanadaGrace et al. (2014)

Percentage of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) patients with a documented communication between the CR program and primary health care practitioner (PHCP).

Home CareUnited Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of ManNational Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Home care for older people

The average number of home care visits each older person receives per home care worker.

Home CareUnited Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of ManNational Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Home care for older people

Total number of home care workers providing care to an older person using home care services.

Rehabilitation CareCanadaCanadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)

The average number of days that clients wait, between the Date Ready for Admission to the rehabilitation program and the actual date of admission.

Care TransitionsScotlandPublic Health Scotland: Delayed Discharges in NHS Scotland

Delayed discharge bed day rate per 1,000 population aged 75 and over.

Care TransitionsScotlandPublic Health Scotland: Delayed Discharges in NHS Scotland

Delayed discharge bed days as a proportion of all occupied bed days.

Care TransitionsEnglandNational Health Service (NHS) England: NHS Oversight Framework

Average Delayed transfers of care (delayed days) for all reasons per 100,000 population.

Care TransitionsEnglandNational Health Service (NHS) England: Delayed Transfers of Care

The ratio of delayed days to adult bed days.

Rehabilitation CareUnited States of AmericaCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP)

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.

Residential Aged CareGermanyMedical Review Board (MRB) quality-related criteria for nursing homes.

Does the nursing home cooperate closely with the treating physician?

Care TransitionsScotlandPublic Health Scotland: Delayed Discharges in NHS Scotland

Estimated cost of delayed discharges across Scotland.

Rural and Remote CareUnited States of AmericaCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): Pennsylvania Rural Health Model (PARHM)

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.

Rehabilitation CareAustralia, New ZealandAustralasian Rehabilitation Outcomes Centre (AROC)

Average change in Functional Independence Measure (FIM) score per day.

Care TransitionsCanadaHealth Quality Council of Alberta FOCUS (Fostering Open Communications that Unleash Solutions) on Emergency Departments

Percentage of acute care inpatient days classified as Alternate Level of Care days.

Home CareCanadaCanadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)

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.

Care TransitionsCanadaAlberta Health Services Seniors Health and Continuing Care Provincial Quality Management

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.

Care TransitionsCanadaCanadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)

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.

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